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Can One Dollar Really Change limr Life?
At last, the secret of the Morgana Candle revealed.
Some People Have It All
Ever notice how some people seen to have their days filled with life’s riches? They travel, have money, are healthy, own big homes, have good jobs, family happiness. Ever been surprised that these people often are no smarter, harder working or better educated than you?
The Secret
The secret is something that we calf "luck.11 The Indians call it '"Karma,” the tribes of South America call it "Ritplau" But what is this., .and can it be changed?
My Story
A few years ago my life was average... or a little worse, l had a low paying job, lots of bills, and frequent unexplained stomach pains. I spent a good deal of time wondering how I could really make my life work well. How 1 loo could experience the joys of life.
1 tried study, magic amulets* changing jobs. But the more 1 '"tried'1 ihe more things stayed the same.
Then A Strange Happening
One bleak night I was walking in down¬ town New York. The snow was a foot deep and l was feeling depressed. I suddenly tripped, fell face down in the snow. The next thing I knew a slim old man was helping me tip. The gentleness of his face overwhelmed me; yet the strength of his hand was fabu¬ lous.
Very Strange
As 1 got up he greeted me by name, I asked how he knew my name, he only smiled. Then he handed me a brown paper bag. He said there is something inside for me. We walked together for a few blocks without saying anything. It all seemed strange to me. As we turned a corner sud¬ denly my new ‘"friend11 wasn't there. 1 looked around. As mysteriously as he arrive he was gone.
Then a Miracle
When 1 got home I opened the paper bag and f found a small candle with a note. The note advised me to burn the candle and re¬ peal a two sentence prayer. At first I was going to throw it away. Somehow I was overcome with a strong desire to follow the instructions. I burnt the candle, repeated the prayer and promptly feel asleep. When I awoke I fell £reat.. .In fact better than I ever felt in my life.
Instant Success
My life, from that night on just seemed to get better and better. That day I got a huge raise, a total surprise. My health seemed perfect. 1 was in absolute tune wTith the Universe,
One Lucky Thing After Another
Day after day things seemed to get bet* ter. Income tax refunds, family harmony, big job offers. It was like a dream.
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An invitation to Joy, Health and untold Wealth.
My Friend Reappears
About a month later I was sitting in a movie theatre enjoying my new found joy. Suddenly I turned to my right and he was there again. This time clutching a slightly larger bag. He told me a story so amazing I'm frightened to repeat it. As he softly smiled he talked in almost a whisper,1" Jeffrey, I want to share the secret of the Morgana Candle, , , and I want you to share it with the world,'1 On a piece of yellowing paper was the place to buy candles. He said to say noth¬ ing when 1 went to buy candles and sell it to anyone ihat was sincere in improving there there life. He told me Never charge more than A Dollar for a candle and be sure to give each buyer the secret prayer. Then he smiled gently and added "'Burn a Candle when you feel the need. For some a candle will last a lifetime for others one a month is perfect... they will know'.”
My Sales Begin
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CONTENTS
JULY 1977 VOL. 2, NO.5
JOE BOON ED FOUNTAINE CAROL-ANN FRIEDMAN CHARLES COWLEY Copy Editors
JOSEPH D’AMATO Art Director
ARNOLD SCHNITZER Editorial Production
ELAINE GIORGIO LINO MILLEVOi MARCIA BEKIARIS MERCEDES FAJARDO ROSEMARY RUDECK CARMINE FORTUNATO JERRY LEFF Art Assistants
MEL LENNY Advertising Director
EDITOR’S CORNER.. . 6
CONTACT . 8
UFO NEWS . 10
UFO BOOKSHELF . 12
By George Earley
WE ARE SPECIMENS IN SOMEONE’S LABORATORY . 14
By Joseph Werfelman
THE SCANDINAVIAN CONNECTION . 16
By Rick Barr
UFO PANICS CONNECTICUT CAMPERS . 20
By George Earley
THIRTY YEARS OF UFOLOGY . 22
By Allen Benz
UFO PERCIPIENTS: THE CHOSEN ONES ... . 28
By Don Worley
HUSH HUSH UFOLOGY . . . 30
By Bill Quinalty
UFO LANDING RING FOUND IN LOUISIANA . 32
By Tommy Roy Blann
THE UFO HOTLINE . 38
By Lee Frey
OUR ASTRONAUTS SAW UFOs! . 40
By Don Wilson
DENICEFRANZO Subscription Manager
HARRIS HONICKMAN Circulation Director
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Secret Air Force report admits the threat is real.
UFOs May Doom Life On Earth
Read The Official U. S. Government Findings!
Ever since 1 he first UFO sightings (shortly after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima) the government has been calling the UFOs a hoax. Yet all the time, Air Force intelligence was working fran¬ tically to discover where the UFOs were coming from!
SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED THE ALARMING TRUTH AND OUR GQV* ERNMENT HAS HIDDEN IT FROM YOU I
PROJECT BLUE BOOK was the govern¬ ment's code name for the top secret, multi-million dollar investigation that had FBI, CIA, special Investigators, university scientists and the RAND Corporation (a government “think tank") — all working feverishly in a national security effort to trace the origins of the UFOs. The find* Ings shocked even the scientists them¬ selves because who could believe all this was just coincidence —
April 12, 1960 The National Science Foundation attempts to communicate with intelligent life in outer space using its giant radio transmitter at Green Bank, West Virginia. On the same day, a scien¬ tist reports seeing a UFO!
BLUE BOOK COORDINATOR,
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November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy h assassinated In Dallas, ex- actly one month after observers at Cupar Fife , Scotland, report seeing a UFO!
July 28, 1964 The day after UFOs ap¬ pear over Norwich, New York, scientists reveal that dozens of dangerous bacteria have developed a strange immunity to miracle drugs !
PROJECT BLUE BOOK FILES NOW PROVE THAT . . .
Early in 1966 while the U.S. is building up troop strength in Vietnam, UFO sight¬ ings increase throughout the world * UFO sightings proceed the Detroit riots of 1967, the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Dr, Martin Luther King, and the seizure of the U*S, Intelligence ship Pueblo by North Korean communists UFOs are sighted at the same time the Supreme Court shocks the conscience of the nation by letting down the floodgates on pornography, yet this is only part of the total picture youll find when you read Project Btue Book!
READ THE SPINE-CHILLING FACTS IN THE GOVERNMENT'S OWN WORDS! Only by reading Project Blue Book will you understand why the government kept saying PROJECT BLUE BOOK did not exist — until, after 30 years, it was finally forced to open its top secret files by relentless public demand. Read the Offi* cial U*S* Government findings for your¬ self and discover why Air Force Intelli¬ gence may believe UFOs are a deadly threat to life on Earth!
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Complete case listings including date, location, and type of ob¬ server for 562 UFO sightings the government was not able to ex* plain by any known earth phe¬ nomenon • 79 photos from official U.S, Government files • photos of UFOs being tracked on radar * a UFO photographed through an ob¬ servatory telescope • sketches of UFO markings made by an eye wit¬ ness * sketches of the crash site of a military aircraft believed to have come too close to a UFO * 12 official U.S* Government draw¬ ings of the basic types of UFOs * 5 graphs indicating intensity of sightings for each type of UFO * Graph indicating sightings by type of UFO * RAND Corporation cal¬ culations of UFO origins * Russian calculations of UFO capabilities and power requirements * Official Air Force UFO reporting proce* dures * 8 UFO Incident Maps. Charts, and Graphs ■ Special Re¬ port USAF ad hoc Committee * Project Blue Book Briefing for Air Defense Command * The Findings of Project Sign • A Summary of Project Grudge * And thafs just the beginning * . *
THE EDITOR’S CORNER
By Dennis William Hauck
June 1977 is the 30th Anniversary of the Modern Era of UFOs, but the question still lingers: Where is the proof?
■Not long ago, while filming a segment in the movie Miracles of the Gods (Hemisphere Productions 1976), William Shatner and 1 had the opportunity to discuss our views on UFOs, Shatner, who had seen a UFO in the Mojave Desert while doing a film there, was very impatient with the lack of progress in the field of ufology. He knew that UFOs were real and could not understand why someone had not brought forward the proof of their existence over the last thirty years. On the other hand, I felt that the lack of decisive evidence in this field was only an indication of the extremely complicated nature of the UFO problem. First, ufologists must study a phenomenon which is outside current scientific knowledge; and then, what little knowledge there is available on the subject is often kept secret by the governmental or civilian authori¬ ties involved. Finally, UFO organiza¬ tions and researchers are constantly hampered by lack of funds. After all, we are civilians in a country whose government chooses to remain silent about UFOs. As civilians we have available a greatly limited amount of capital for in-depth research into a problem that I am sure is every bit as complicated as building the first A-bomb, What we need, of course, is a UFO Manhattan Project with the coordinated efforts of our best minds to crack the UFO riddle; what wre have is an under-funded, under- staffed, over-worked group of dedicated or¬ ganizations that are often jealous and uncooperative with one another. Quite honestly, it's a wonder there has been any progress at all.
But there has been progress, and there can be even more progress if we start to work together. The actions of any government are usually politically motivated; therefore, the organiza¬ tions have something that the govern¬ ment will never have: a driving.
human desire for the truth. We are the people. We have the brain and the will and the means to solve the UFO problem. And together we have the funds, too.
Funds are vitally important to any UFO organization. The organizations do not receive huge grants from the government or private foundations and they must rely on membership dues and contributions to survive. The following is a list of the major UFO organizations and their activities. Any contribution to them is tax-deductible and will further the specific research projects and general investigative efforts in which they are involved. The Center for UFO Studies (924 Chicago Ave,, Evanston, Illinois 60201) is not a membership organization, although it publishes a variety of materials for the public. The Center is responsible for UFOCAT, a computer cataloging and analysis system for UFO sightings, and operates UFO CENTRAL for police and official use in reporting UFO sightings. The Aerial Pheno¬ mena Research Organization (3910 East Kleindale Rd,, Tucson, Arizona 85716) is the oldest membership organization and is currently asking for contributions for a building fund. The Mutual UFO Network (103 Oldfowne Rd., Seguin, Texas 78155) is also a membership organization and has specific, scientific research pro¬ jects in such areas as humanoid and physical trace analysis. Another mem¬ bership organization is the Inter¬ national UFO Registry (P,0, Box 1004, Hammond, Indiana 46325),
which operates the public UFO HOT¬ LINE (800-348-4057), the UFO ALERT SYSTEM and the Citizen’s Radio UFO Network (CRUFGN), All these organizations are responsible and scientifically orientated, and they all publish UFO periodicals,
A new lobbying effort is underway to initiate a UFO research agency under the direction of the United Nations. Many of the member nations of the UN have recently indicated an interest in the UFO problem, an interest which could conceivably be turned into a formal resolution for a UN research effort. Hopefully, the first worldwide UFO research project will be m ade up of the heads of various UFO organizations, representatives of the United Nations and a UN Advisory Committee to be made up of contribu¬ tors of $10 or more to the project. Decisions as to which UFO projects deserve support will be made by a strict vote of all the participants. Contributions can be made to: Project UNUFO, c/o OFFICIAL UFO, 257 Park Ave. South, New York, New York 10010.
So much for the UFO research efforts. What is really needed is a little more public effort. The UFO problem can be solved, and it would be a tremendous step in the right direction if all the Americans who believe in the reality of UFOs would demonstrate that belief with a check to one of the organizations listed here. The benefits of a true understanding of the UFO phenomenon will be shared by all. •
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Dear Editor:
After I read "The UFO Pictures No¬ body Wanted" in the February 1977 issue of OFFICIAL UFO, 1 realized I had very similar pictures taken with a SX 70 Polaroid camera. When I was learning to operate the camera, l found that by setting the lightness control to very light the camera would delay ejecting the picture and thereby act like a time exposure. The results would depend on the lightness control
and the type of night (overcast or very dark nights would produce different results), I took a night shot of the moon and two street lights which pro¬ duced a picture with broken lines of different colors. Due to the fact that 1 moved the camera, I created lines of light across the pictures, I wish to make it clear that I am not trying to discredit Mike Gribovski’s UFO sight¬ ing, His light source was a UFO, and the SX 70 created the lines on the print. This camera is inadequate for taking pictures at night.
As you can see from the picture of the street lights and moon, it is very similar to the Gribovski pictures, 1 have also taken some nocturnal UFO pictures with a Minolta 110, which turned out very strange. One of these was published in CANADIAN UFO REPORT (April 1976) and shows greenish-yellow streaks all over the picture. In another picture, all that came out was a foggy, cloudlike back- 3
ground, I do not know what to make of any of these pictures, except that they show what a wide variance in the finished photo the type of camera used can produce.
Respectfully, Mrs, Betty Jones Kalispell, Montana
Dear CONTACT:
“Nonsensel" says Robert A, Goer- man (March 77) to my argument (October 76) showing why the stories about the “Men In Black" arc exactly that: just stories. He claims to have positive evidence that the "sinister M1B” are real. But all he gives us is just another unsupported tale. Let's see some indisputable facts!
If the Men In Black really do exist, why haven't they "silenced" Betty Hill or Charles Hickson or Durcl Johnson or Travis Walton? I’ve heard their stories so many times that if I hear them once more I'm going to be sick. Why do the Men In Black continue to let Stanton Friedman spew out his saucer tales from Atlantic to Pacific? Why don't they silence Dr, Hynek or Major Keyhoe? Or OFFICIAL UFO editor Dennis Hauck? It seems that their "wall of silence" is about as leak- proof as a sieve,
Fd have a little more confidence in Mr, Goerman’s research if he had at least quoted me correctly. If someone can't even copy a short paragraph without messing it up in four places, it hardly inspires confidence in the rest of the article.
Sincerely, Robert Shaeffer Silver Springs, Maryland
Dear Editor:
I am writing in response to the in¬ terview of Philip Klass by James Gberg in the February 1977 OFFI¬ CIAL UFO, Obviously, Mr, Klass is one of those individuals who wants to be noticed at the expense of the repu¬ tations of others. What was the point in making it known that Travis Wal¬ ton had been charged with burglary and forgery? He was not convicted. And why attack the second polygraph
operator on grounds of inexperience and ineptitude? These personal attacks simply show how flimsy Mr, Klass’ arguments really are, I cannot help but wonder what Mr, Klass' motives arc in spending so much time and money debunking UFO cases, I think Uncle Sam slips him a regular check. After all, wasn’t it an American gen¬ eral who said, “Maybe one can do it, where a thousand have failed,"
I wonder how Mr, Klass would han¬ dle the Papuan case, where a priest and 14 students watched a saucer hov¬ ering over them, 1 am sure he would call the priest a liar. It is his usual modus operandi. Remember how Sheriff Geoffrey Green haw's life was ruined after he reported seeing UFO occupants? His trailer home was burned to the ground; he lost his job; his wife divorced him. All that with no fraud actually proved against him! He lost everything thanks to people like Philip Klass.
Sincerely, Mai Pennington British Columbia, Canada
Dear Editor:
OFFICIAL UFO's recent article, “Men In Black Exist," by Robert Goerman (March 1977 issue) is indeed a case in point! However, there is much to be said for this curious pheno¬ menon closely linked with the UFO enigma. For years rational researchers have shied away from examining vari¬ ous forms of harassment incurred dur¬ ing their UFO investigations, prefer¬ ring to pass ofT many incidents as mere coincidence. Unfortunately, ig¬ noring or disbelieving in this problem has not eliminated it, fn fact, a great many UFO witnesses have been duped and manipulated by these “perpetra¬ tors of fear" simply because they were not informed about their existence and tactics. Also, as a result of recent Watergate related revelations, we know- that certain governmental agen¬ cies have been involved in similar capers, and, of course, this suspicion compounds the problem.
It now seems that two separate in¬ telligence agencies (one still unknown) have been working diligently to thwart investigations, discredit witnesses and confiscate UFO evidence. Is it any wonder that after 30 years of civilian study, the public still knows very little about UFOs?
Sincerely, Harry Tokarz Toronto, Canada
Dear Editor:
I should like to reply to the letter of Jon 0* Peterson* published in the March issue of OFFICIAL UFO.
The fact that Mr. Peterson has actually constructed a locomotive engine utilizing the spin of gyroscopes places him in the company of an elite group. Since my article appeared in OFFICIAL UFO, I have been con¬ tacted by a businessman who is inter- ested in developing inventions of this kind; if Mr. Peterson will write me di¬ rectly, I shall be pleased to exchange addresses. Mr, Peterson's description of his own invention gives the impres¬ sion that he can demonstrate a reac¬ tion more powerful than its initiating action. This is a stupendous break¬ through, indeed. I surmise that a great deal has been left out of Mr. Peter¬ son's description* because as his letter stands, his invention has no practical value; patent protection cannot be se¬ cured for perpetual motion devices, I sincerely hope that Mr. Peterson has much more to say about how his in¬ vention works,
Mr. Peterson's criticism of the elec¬ tron's ability to function as a gyro¬ scope fails to take into account that its momentum increases exponentially with its velocity. At velocities approach¬ ing the speed of light* such as is gen¬ erated in a betatron, its effective mass
The letter we have featured on our cover this issue was received March 7 and was postmarked in Bridgeport, Connecticut, A subsequent investiga¬ tion of the claims of Emily ----- led us to believe that something odd had indeed befallen her and her husband while they were driving home from a visit with relatives in Vermont.
Both adults reported that they were unable to recall everything that went
becomes so great that it can no longer be contained in the raceway. It is this excessive mass that is the main failing of my thesis* rather than insufficient mass* as Mr. Peterson suggests.
Mr. Peterson's premise that gravity inheres with the atom is a reasonable base for a hypothesis, but this is one of the cases in which reason is easily mis¬ taken. Gravity inheres with the struc¬ ture of space and time. One has to take a long view to perceive this, so scientists who analyze data extremely closely are bound to miss it.
The main point of the article is to show that the engineering of UFOs is within the capabilities of our present scientific state of the art and the prin¬ ciples can be understood by any intel¬ ligent person without special school¬ ing. The article was never intended to be taken as working plans for engi¬ neers to follow to tool up for a produc¬ tion run; this seemed self-evident.
However falteringly the first steps were made to publish hypotheses on the technology of UFOs for a popular readership, OFFICIAL UFO must be praised for being the first to take them. Surprisingly* readership replies indicate that technical explanations are a main interest second only to well documented reports. We can only wonder now if editors in previous years underestimated the intelligence
on during the late-night ride home* al¬ though they disagree as to the explan¬ ation of the lapse of memory. The hus¬ band insists that his wife had fallen asleep and that he fell into a daze while driving the dark roads home. The wife, Emily* says that her husband is not telling the whole story and that he believes* as she does* that someone hypnotized them or otherwise mani¬ pulated them to forget what actually happened on that ride home. Further¬ more* Emily believes that sometime during that trip* someone abducted her real son and substituted another child. She believes that space aliens arc behind the deed. She believes that she and her husband underwent a time lapse similar to the Betty and Barney Hill abduction* and that during that time lapse the space aliens took her child and gave her an alien child in its placel
Our investigations revealed that she had indeed consulted her doctor about the suspicious changes in her son* but the doctor believed that the child
of their readers, or whether they gauged readers' interest accurately and began to give technical information just as soon as enough people were ready to buy it.
Sincerely, T,B. Pawlicia British Columbia* Canada
Dear Editor;
In the March issue of OFFICIAL UFO you provided the name and address of a UFO detector manufac¬ turer, The article gave the address as Biotronics Co,, Suite 1204, Chicago, Illinois 60604, As you can see* the address is not complete. I would appreciate it if you could tell me the correct address of this company* for as far as 1 know, they are the only firm in the United States to make UFO detection equipment.
Sincerely*
George O'Hare Pleasant ville* New York
Editor’s NoteiThe correct address far Biotronics Co, is 28 East Jackson Blyd. , Suite 1204 T Chicago, Illinois 60604. Sorry about the omission!
simply was ill with the flu at the time. He pointed put that children react very differently than adults to the stresses of illness and that this was the first and only child of the couple in question. He believed that the mother's suspicions were based on her inexperience with children.
Checks with the relatives in Vermont substantiated the rest of the letter's contents. It can safely be assumed that Emily, her husband and their child were driving between Vermont and Connecticut about the time she stated. What really happened on those dark roads is still open to conjecture, however. We are continuing our efforts to thoroughly investigate this case.
While it is true that we receive many letters with unsubstantiated and hard-to-prove claims, this letter seemed so urgent and genuine that we have reproduced it for our readers. We make no judgment as to its contents but do solicit our readers' comments and any accounts of similar experiences.
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■There are a number of important UFO get-togethers scheduled for this month, the Thirtieth Anniversary of Modern UFOJogy. The International UFO Congress, sponsored by Fate magazine, will take place June 24 to June 26 at the Palmer House in Chicago. Speakers for the event include: I* Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallee, James Harder, Jim and Coral Lorenzen, Leo Sprinkle, John Keel and David Jacobs. This promises to be a worthwhile event. Further informa¬ tion can be obtained from: Fate, 500 Hyacinth Pi., Highland Park, Illinois 60036. On your way back from this congress, you might want to stop by the annual MUFON Picnic to be held Sunday, June 26, at the Fish Hatchery Park in Carlyle, Illinois. This is an informal affair, with a chance to meet many of the important people in the Mutual UFO Network. The speaker will be John Schuessler, A Thirty Year UFO Anniversary and Star Trek Convention will be held at the Myrad in Oklahoma City on June II and 12, Speakers there will include Brad Steiger and Erich von Daniken, and further details can be obtained from Hayden Hewes, P.O. Box 441, Ed¬ mond, Oklahoma 73034.
Many of you have asked about how
to contact the various limited circula¬ tion newsletters on the subjects of UFOs. While there are simply too many to list here, a reprint of an article "The UFO Newsletters" is available for Si. 00 from: UFOlogy Magazine, P.O- Box 3073, Munster, Indiana 46321. That article contains complete information on the major newsletters. Two new additions to the list are The Seeker and the Anomaly Research Bulletin. The Seeker (913 6th St., Clarkston, Washington, 99403) is put out by R. Floyd- Kresse and contains reports of most areas of unexplained phenomena, such as UFOs, monsters, disappearances and hauntings. The Anomaly Research Bulletin (7098 Edinburgh, Lambertville, Michigan 48144) is an excellent new effort by David Fideler. It is always factual and straightforward, and attractively laid out in a format that usually runs about
Associate Administrator for the Office of External Affairs at NASA Herbert Rowe (left) discusses the possibility that extraterrestrial beings will visit Earth with William Shalner (center) and Advanced Space Flight Scientist Jesco von Pull kamer (right) before filming of a segment for Mysteries of the Gods at NASA head¬ quarters In Washington.
20 pages. The magazine covers all areas of the unexplained in an intelligent manner. Six issues (one year) cost three dollars.
A new cross-country lecture service called the National Speakers and Psychics Registry (NSPR) has been formed. The bureau will provide moderately priced speakers on sub¬ jects from UFOs and ancient astro¬ nauts to parapsychology and psychic phenomena. Further information is available from Irene Serra, NSPR, P.O. Box 1259, Morristown, New Jersey 07960. By the way, anyone knowing of UFO lectures, confer¬ ences, Films, etc, is urged to contact 14 UFO News,” so that we may pass the information along to our readers. The only upcoming lecture we have on schedule is Stanton Friedman at the Columbia Junior College in Columbia, California on Tuesday, May 24, at 8 p.tn.
OFFICIAL UFO editor Dennis Hauck was one of the ufologists interviewed by William Shatner in the new movie Mysteries of the Gods (Hemisphere Pictures, 1977), The film presents evidence that extraterrestrial beings have visited the Earth in the past and are now observing us. The Film travels around the world to bring to the screen some of the best ancient astronaut evidence available, as well as looking at evidence that extra¬ terrestrials are still visiting us, UFOs Filmed by NASA spacecraft from 1969 to the present were released and are shown to the public for the First time in this motion picture. The photo¬ graphs were taken en route to the moon and in other probes and dearly show unidentiFied flying objects in motion around our NASA flights. Though Mysteries of the Gods con¬ tains much evidence that the mysteries of the past, such as the crystal skull dating back into antiquity, could have been left here by beings from other planets thousands of years ago, the portions involving NASA and ufolo¬ gists go on to document the fact that government-accredited scientists, as well as seers like Jean Dixon, believe that we aTe being visited now and that alien beings will soon be landing here. •
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Have you tried everything to get rid of crip¬ pling, agonizing pain? Have you or a loved one been desperate enough to seek acupuncture treatment in the hope of finding peace of mind and body? Now, a new form of acupuncture treatment called "ACUPRESSURE" has been discovered to bring relief of pain "'WITHOUT NEEDLES/' Not only can acupressure provide the same relief as needle acupuncture, but can in many cases accomplish it more safely, with less expense and do it better.
Dr, Keith Kenyon, a pioneer physician using only finger pressure, daily performs miracle- like pain-relieving treatments in his private prac¬ tice. In PRESSURE POINTS, an amazing hook, this famous medial doctor gives you the bene¬ fit of his years of sucre. He teaches you where and how to press yourself so that symptoms an disappear even after many pain-filled years.
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The exact location of more then 60 major patn-e&mg spots on your body .
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How acupressure helps sexual impotence. (Chapter IOJ
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PRESSURE POINTS by Or. Keith Kenyon not only describes seeming miracles but shows you in dose-up photographs and it lustrations with vivid descriptions how to make them a part of your everyday life.
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Chest Mb:
Nothing can take the place of your doctor's diag¬ nosis and treatment but acupressure may enable you to help yourself or one dear to you through the first, suffocating chest pains of an attack. It may help someone through a serious emergency.
Tension Hl<d>d»i:
Relieve that throbbing, piercing pain merely by pressing a certain spot on your head. Chapter 9 shows you where to apply acupressure as soon a* the pain begins. No port waiting in nerve* a ogling suspense hoping that medication will work.
You actually sense the relief » a pleasant, tingling sensation runs through tfl# affected area, helping to drive away pain.
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As Or. Kenyon knows only too well, ordinary med¬ icine alone is often helpless when treating bron¬ chitis and asthma. Only a sufferer can understand the terror of not being able to suck in enough air to breathe. Chapter 16 of PRESSURE POINTS shows the actual spots on your body that you can use to help relieve these torturing afflictions. You may find that you breathe normally again for the first time in many years.
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"During all this time l had been working with Or, Kenyon developing a power source tor the artificial heart, which f invented. He had always advised me to try acupressure but t never realty listened. But now . with hope fading , / decided to listen to Dc Kenyon He showed me how to treat myself in fust a few minutes. "
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■The proponents of the new ufology— which says there is much more to this 30 year old mystery than extraterres¬ trial visitors buzzing up and down our highways at night* scaring little old ladies and young lovers out for a drive- have in Brad Steiger a most reason¬ able and articulate spokesman. Whereas some new ufologists write like tax lawyers converted to Eastern mysticism* Steiger makes his case with sufficient clarity that any reasonably intelligent reader can decide for him¬ self what to accept and what to reject.
For readers unfamiliar with the new ufology and its tenets* a good starting place is Steiger’s new book Gods of Aquarius (Harcourt Brace Jovano- vitch* New York* 1976* 264 pages* illustrations* $8.95).
The book is a veritable potpourri of contactee information and philosophy* and this is both its strength and weak¬ ness. In gathering information for his book* Steiger has trotted about the country interviewing scores of people in order to present us* chapter by chapter* their ideas, philosophies and beliefs about the coming fieitf age.
The results of Steiger’s travels and encounters with a wide variety of con- tactees make up the bulk of the book. We learn about “The Star Maidens and the Worldwide Production of 'Little Uri Gellers*”’ “Healing with UFO Energy,” “Women and UFOs*” “New Age Prophets and the Time of Transition" and much more. It seems quite clear from Steiger’s account that there are literally thousands of "silent contactees” — people throughout the country who claim to have had some form of interaction with ultra terres¬ trials but who have not run to the news media with their stories.
Unfortunately, or so it seems to me, the type of presentation Steiger has opted fordoes not readily lend itself to a meaningful pulling-together of the various disparate strands he has col¬ lected. Perhaps I am expecting too much; perhaps not enough is known yet to permit a cohesive synthesis of 12
the ideas and philosophies repre¬ sented in the new ufology . Whatever the reason, despite the fact that many parts of the book are both interesting and informative* the work as a whole does not impel me to join the ranks of the/zew ufologists For me, to put it in Spockian terms, “it does not com¬ pute*” and until it does I shall remain an observer and not a participant.
Now* having stated my position* it is only fair to state Steiger’s. Early in Gods of Aquarius he writes: “I have been engaged in UFO research since the 1950 s, and I have come to the conclusion that, throughout history, some external intelligence has inter¬ acted wim Homo Sapiens in an effort to learn more about us— or in an effort to communicate to our species certain basic truths. I am also con¬ vinced that a subtle kind of symbiotic relationship exists between mankind and the UFO intelligences. I believe that in a way which we have yet to de¬ termine* they need us as much as we need them. It is quite possible that either or both species might once have had an extraterrestrial origin; but more important* it may be that the very biological and spiritual evolution
of Earth depends upon the establish¬ ment ol equilibrium between us and our cosmic cousins. I do not dog¬ matically exclude the extraterrestrial hypothesis* but I prefer the theory that UFOs may be our neighbors right around the corner in another Space- Time continuum.”
The new ufologists t Steiger points out* believe that what is perceived by observers as a UFO is really a “projec¬ tion” into our space-rime from a Parallel Uni verse/ Alternate Reality/ Different Vibratory Plane of Existence, The projection may be either non -material (ghostly) or suffi¬ ciently solid to leave physical traces here on earth, e,g.* scorch marks* broken branches* indentations in the soil, etc. These projections may or may not be accompanied by human¬ oid manifestations— little men with S pock -type ears, men and women who in face and form surpass the human norm tor physical beauty and who radiate great wisdom* compassion* etc., and/or hairy monsters in several sizes. These beings* particularly the supra-human ones, may give the percipient a message which he/she may or may not share with other ter¬ restrials. Moreover* says Steiger, some UFOs could even be living beings in their own right. To buttress this latter belief* he includes some peculiar photographs taken by Trevor James Constable, using infra-red film, of huge “amoeba-like” forms in our at¬ mosphere. (Constable’s new book* Cosmic Pulse Of Life* which goes into this in great depth, will be reviewed here in a future column.)
Gods of Aquarius is interesting and informative; it is also a disturbing book in many ways as it strikes hard at the roots of much of what many of us have learned in the past and have grown up betieving was beyond chal¬ lenge. But you will, I feel* be doing yourself a disservice if you ignore the book. It is a book for careful reading — not once, but many times.
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And in 10 seconds starts to draw Riches, Love, Fine Possessions, Friends, Power, Secret Knowledge, and much more into your life? See for yourself!
Tei, s stifftrlni mirvcft hai happened? A bril¬ liant psychic researcher has discovered a secret- so powerful that it is said to brief your desires to you, from the Invisible world, like a bluing streak of lightning!
Yes, how would you like to be able to sit in your living room* give ike command for love, and Instantly havr your loved one appear at your side? Or give the command for money, and suddenly find a big, thick roll of dollars in your hand?* Now, p daring new book called TELECULT POWER lays bare this magic secret, and shows how it can bring fortune, love, and happiness. And Reese P. Du bin — the man who discovered it — makes this shocking claim . . .
"Great Wealth And Power Can Be Yours!”
Admittedly, the concept this book proposes Is completely opposed and contrary to normal hu¬ man knowledge and experience. "But at this very moment,” says Mr. Dubin* "I have startling proof that I want you to see with your own eyes! I want to show you * * .
* "How diamonds and jewels have appeared, seemingly out of nothingness, shortly after the use of this strange secret P*
* "How a man used this method for a pocketful of money!"
* “How a woman used it to fill an empty purse!11
* "How a farmer received a pot full of gold!1'
* "How another user Teleported a gold jewel boa to her, seemingly out of thin air!"
* "How a woman used this method to regain her lost youth!*'
* "How a man, growing bald, claims he renewed the growth of his hair with this secret!"
* "How a woman used it to bring her mate to her, without asking!"
* "How another woman summoned a man to her —out of thin air!**
* "How a man heard the unspoken thoughts of others, wfth this secret!"
* "How a woman saw behind walls and over great distances, with It!"
* "How a man broadcast silent commands that others had to obey!"
Let us now clearly demonstrate to you the sci¬ entific basil behind the new wonderworking, Mir¬ acle of TELECULT POWER!
“How Telecult Power Brings Any Desire Easily And Automatically!"
For many years, Reese P. Dubin dreamed of a way to calf upon the invisible forces at work all around us. He spent a lifetime digging and search¬ ing for the secret. These investigations brought him knowledge that goes back to the dim recesses of the past. . , ,, * ...
One day , to his astonishment, he discovered that he could actually broadcast silent commands, which others instantly obeyed , Using the secret he tells you about In this book , he tried it time after time — commanding others to sleep, get up ana come to him , talk or not talk - and act according to his silent wishes . It worked every timet Working relentlessly from this evidence, Reese P. Dubin succeeded in perfecting a new kind of instrument — called a Tele-Photo Transmitter — that concentrates your thoughts, and sends them Like a streaking bullet to their destination!
OTHERS OBEY SILENT COMMANDS! Writ¬ ing of the success of this method* one user report* the following experience:
'7 wilted her to pick up and eat a biscuit from a plate in a corner of the room. She did jo. / wf/l- ed her to shake hands with her mother. She rushed to her mother and stroked her hands * * ■
"/ wilted her to nod. She siood still and bent her head. I willed her to clap her hands, play a note on rhe plana, write her name, alt of wfcfch she did. ^ "No one can escape the power of this method, says Mr, Dubin. "Everybody - high or low, Igno¬ rant or wise — all are subject to Us spell! And un¬ less the person is told what's being done, he will think the thoughts are his own!"
HEARS THE THOUGHTS OF OTHERS! Ex¬ perimenting further with the Tele-IJoto Trans¬ mitter, Reese P, Dubin soon found that he could
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SEES BEYOND WALLS, AND OVER GREAT DISTANCES! Then he discovered he could pick up actual sights, From behind walls and over great distances! And when he "tuned in’* he could see actual living scenes before him— as clear as the picture on a television screen!
MAKES WOMAN APPEAR - SEEMINGLY OUT OF THIN AIR! With mounting excitement, Reese F. Dubin launched one of the most exciting experiments in the history of psychic research. He wanted to see If the Tele- Photo Transmitter could bring him an actual material object! He chose, for this experiment, the seemingly impossible: an ac¬ tual living person!
He simpiy focused the Tele*Photo Transmitter * by dialing the abfect of his desire, in a pash the door burst open , and there - standing before him * as real as life — was his long-lost cousin !
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You’ll see how to use the Tele-Photo Trans- milter, to summon your desires. This special in¬ strument — your mental equipment — requires no wires, and no electricity. "Yet," says Mr, Dubin, "it can teleport desires, swiftly from the invisible
tv hen you dial your desire -whether for riches. Jove, or secret knowiedge-you capture its invis¬ ible, photoplasmic form, at which point “it starts to materialize!" says Dr, Dubin,
"Telecult Power can work seeming miracles in your life," says Mr, Dubin. "With It, it is possible to dial any desire — called a Photo- Form — then sit back, relax, and watch this powerful secret go to work!"
"Instantly Ynur Lite Is Chanted!'’
With this sec re l, the mightiest force In the Uni¬ verse js at your command! "Simply ask for any¬ thing you want," says Mr. Dubin, "whether it be riches, Jove, fine possessions, power, friends, or secret knowledge!'1
Suppose you had dialed Photo-Form r2 for Jewels, for example , That's what Margaret C. did, in an actual example Mr. Dubin tells you about * Rich, glittering diamonds and fewels literally ap¬ peared at her feet: a pair of gold earrings, which she found that morning . * , a surprise gift of a pearl necklace, and matching silver bracelets . . . a beautiful platinum ring set with emeralds and diamonds , dropped on her front lawn!
"Almost overnight." says Mr. Dubin, it can start to multiply riches, bring romance and love . * * draw favors, gifts, new friends , . . or any¬ thing else asked for! It isn't oecessap for you to understand why. What is important is that it has already worked for many others . . men and women in all walks of life . . . worked every time # , , and it will work for you, too!
Brings A Pocket Full Of Money!
You* 11 see how Jerry D. used this method. He was broke a week before payday. A U he did, he says, was to dial Photo-Form #L Suddenly J&e felt a bulge in hi* pocket. Lo and behold! He took out a rod of money . * - fives, tens, twenties . . , and more! Obviously, it had been placed tbere- but when? And by whom?
A Brand New Car Comes!
Marty C.. « taxi driver, report! that he just dialed Photo-Form #4, sat •“'Jr "'i"11' * S waited (or thimti to happen.ln a shorttmie.grea excitement filled the home. Hii wife came hurry inn in saying, “We won it! We won a car and a caSh prize? f’hey just delivered it!" Hf got up and went to the window. There, big and beautiful,
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Brings Mate Without Asking!
Mrs. Conrad B. reports that she was tired of "pursuing" her husband, as she called it. She wanted him to voluntarily do the things she longed for, take her places, show affection. Bui he hadn t looked at her in years. He would fall asleep imme¬ diately after supper, or watched the ball games, or read the paper*. Secretly Mrs. B, decided to try this method. She dialed Photo-Form #9 for Usve! Instantly, her husband’s attitude changed from boredom to interest and enthusiasm. And from that day forward, he showered her with kindness and affection! It was like a miracle come true!
The Power Of Tills Method!
There are so many personal experiences which I could recount, stories of healing, wealth, and hap¬ piness with this secret, that 1 find myself wanting to tell all of them at once. Here are just a few . . .
* REGAINS HAIR GROWTH! Waller C. had a
shiny bald head with just a fringe of white hair showing around the edges* He tried rtus method, and soon his hair began to regrow. The new hair came in thick, dark, and luxurious! ’ r
■ ROLLS DICE SO TIMES WITHOUT MlSSIING ONCE! You’ll see bow this secret gave Albert s. the power to roll the dice 50 times, without miss¬ ing once, and— for the first time in the history of Las Vegas— walk away with 5500,000!
• DISSOLVES ALL EVIL! You'll see how this amazing secret revealed to Lawrence M the ; peo¬ ple. who were trying lo make him look silly at work -actually revealed their secret thoughls- madc them confess and apologize!
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Why don’t the UFO intelligences reveal themselves to us? Would “you” bother telling laboratory rats what the experiment is all about?
■ On September 1, 1973 Edwin Fuhr, while busy harvesting his crops, was approaching a slough in the ground when suddenly he observed a sym¬ metrical box-shaped object hovering about a foot off the ground. The grass underneath the object was being swept in a clockwise, swirling motion,
Fuhr, a farmer residing in a remote area of Saskatchewan, Canada, watched in amazement for a few min¬ utes before he noticed the entire object was turning. Then off to his left he spotted four other identical objects performing the same function. For 15 minutes he sat there watching the ob¬ jects and wanting to leave, but for some reason he just could not move. Suddenly the objects all left, simultan¬ eously rising straight in the air and ex¬
hibiting a gray mist from underneath each one. An investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police turned up a circular swirl of grass for each UFO position reported by Fuhrl /UFOs have been reported flying around the earth for hundreds and possibly thousands of years, it appears our planet has been, and cur¬ rently is under intense observation by beings of superior intelligence. Their purpose we can only hypothesize, but one thing seems certain: we are speci¬ mens in someone's laboratory where experiments with our earth and its in¬ habitants take place at the conven¬ ience of these intruders.
When pilot Kenneth Arnold wit¬ nessed nine saucer-shaped objects while flying over Mount Rainer, Washington in 1947, it was the begin¬ ning of the modern era of UFO sight¬ ings. Since then our planet has been the subject of a seemingly widespread intelligent surveillance by alien beings. People have reported UFOs (Continued on page 3 e) 15
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■ On February 15, 1974* Jorma Viita was riding his bicycle to a karate dub in Odense, Denmark* As he neared the city at 5 p*m* he saw a silvery, saucer-shaped object behind some, nearby trees. The object was slowly maneuvering approximately 300 feet above the ground. It appeared to be 20 or 30 feet in diameter and six feet high* A reddish hole* which was sur¬ rounded by smoke, could be seen in the bottom of the craft* Viita chased the object and was able to take three photographs before it flew away. For
two weeks after the encounter he suf¬ fered a severe headache.
For more than 40 years unidentified flying objects— in one form or an¬ other— have exhibited a curious interest in the Scandinavian region* Over the years the Scandina¬ vian military authorities and civilian investigators have collected thousands of UFO reports* including numerous close encounters and occupant sight¬ ings— a fact which has led many prominent researchers to speculate that the UFOs operate from a secret
Finnish photographer, Jorma Villa, has taken several pictures of UFOs. (Courtesy
Is there a secret UFO base somewhere in the rugged, northern reaches of Scandinavia? That’swhat the author of this provocative
report suggests!
base located somewhere in the area. In this article we will examine a sample of the data that they have ac¬ cumulated during the past four decades.
In the 1930s unidentified airplanes began to appear over the thinly popu¬ lated areas of northern Norway, Sweden and Finland, The “ghost- flier s” were usually described as ordinary-looking, gray-colored air¬ planes, often multi-engined, with no visible identification markings. One of the first reports (December 24, 1933) appeared as a brief item in the Swedish newspaper Dagens-Nyheter. It read: “A mysterious airplane ap¬
UFO photographed near Goeteborg. Sweden in 1974,
peared from the directiorhof the Bot- tensea about 6 p.m, Christmas Eve, passed over Kalix and continued west¬ ward, Beams of light came from the machine, searching the area.”
After Christmas the ghostfliers stepped up their activity and many re¬ ports reached the Scandinavian press. The following account, datelined January 13, 1934, from Oslo, Norway, is a typical example:
"An attempt to catch the myste¬ rious flier ended in failure Friday .One mysterious flier was seen to alight near the island of Sleipskar on Friday even¬ ing. The island is only a few kilo¬ metres south of Gjesl ingen, where one of the machines wras seen to land the day before,
''Earlier in the evening, beams of light and engine roars were reported in the same area. When the aeroplane was seen to land on the water a mes¬ sage wras sent immediately to Rorvik. The cruiser Eagle was docked there. Unfortunately, a pilot was not avail¬ able when the message was received, -
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These waters are too dangerous, be¬ cause of many reefs, for a ship to sail them without a pilot.
“People all over Rorvik saw' the mysterious aeroplane between two and three in the morning. It seemed to be heading towards Sweden. Around 10 p.m. the plane flew over Isfjorden, near Adalsnas. It was a biplane, equipped with pontoons, and van¬ ished over Romsdaksfiorden, Five persons witnessed its flight. It was at high altitude."
The Scandinavian governments took the ghostflier reports very seri¬ ously — due, in part, to their persistent
overflights of restricted strategic areas. As the reports poured in, mili¬ tary authorities undertook several in- depth investigations. Finally, on April 30, 1934, Major General Reutersward, the commanding general of upper Norrland, Sweden, issued this statement:
"Comparisons of these reports show' that there can be no doubt about il¬ legal air traffic over our secret military areas. There are many reports from reliable people which describe close observations of the enigmatic flier. And in every case the same remark can be noted: no insignia or idcnti-
Villas full 35mm negative image. (Credit: Jorma Villa and Heimo Vesterine< Den¬
mark],
(Continued on page 48)
Photograph of an unidentified flying ob- * jeci taken near the Skagerrak-Kattegal Sound in Denmark.
Photo by Lars Thorn of UFO hovering over . Lake Vatiern, Sweden, May 6, 1971. ^
This sequence of three pictures was laken on February 15, 1974, near Odense, Den¬ mark. The UFO, when first seen, was hov* v ering over the forest but then began to T move slowly until it Hirnad-geompreeely up¬ side down and sped away to the northeast.
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GAVIN FHOST, ESt, Ph.I>. I>.I>„ it Archbishop of [ht Church of Wicca, with nation at headquarters in Salem, Missouri, branches in several states and worldwide member¬ ship, He ft Marshal of the Gold Star of England, with the right to wear the Saffron Kobe and one of the very few Witches in the Western Hemisphere privileged to wear the authentic mark of initiation an hi* wtisi. Although de¬ scended from a lung line of mystics and scholars, and formerly a Y'icr- President and Lift eel or of International Ope rat tons for major aerospace companies, he prefers to be thought of at a humble teacher.
Mi* YVONNE FROST* A, A,* D.D., with her husband Garin Frost, devotes her lime lo giving private instruction and publishing SuriheJ. the newsletter of the Church of Witca, of which she is a Bishop.
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UFO
PANICS
CONNECTICUT
CAMPERS
By George W. Earley
A peaceful hike by a troop of thir¬ teen boys was suddenly inter¬ rupted by the appearance of a large, metallic, whining “flying saucer’’ directly in their path!
different from the usual round of camp activities.
‘‘Anyone for a hike up Blueberry Mountain?'1 (Like most “mountains'*
just a high hill, rising a few hundred in New England, Blueberry is really feet into the Connecticut skies behind Camp Delaware. As its name implies, it has blueberry bushes, a succulent attraction to perpetually hungry adolescents.)
"I'll go" said 15 year old Kerry Ezrol. “Me, too!" shouted Gregg Bond and Billy Wcismann, By the time the hike actually got underway, counselor Leifer was leading a troop of 13 boys, ages 13 to 15.
It was 3:45 that hot July afternoon when the group straggled up the final approach to the peak of Blueberry Mountain. The area is open, scrub covered with few trees, and affords a good view of the surrounding terri¬ tory.
What happened next, happened fast. So fast, in fact, that some of the witnesses ivere left staring at an empty
■ Camp Delaware is located on Route 183, midway between the towns of Winsted and Winchester in north¬ western Connecticut, It is an area of rolling, forested hills, w-ith lakes and reservoirs nestled here and there about the countryside. Narrow two- lane roads wind through green hills and flowered fields, past stonewall fences that were old when the upstart yankees of New England took up arms against King George III,
Like most summer camps, Dela¬ ware offers its campers a wide variety of programs: swimming, boating and other water sports; tennis, baseball and horseback riding for dry land fan¬ ciers, With its fields and forests, hills and lake, it offers city youngsters the rural life so many dream of and so few get to experience.
One thing that Camp Delaware does not offer its campers is a seminar in UFO watching, yet for a few weeks in the summer of 1976 that is exactly what many of them participated in.
Wednesday, July 28th, was a hot, clear, sunny day. By afternoon, 24 year old counselor Ira Leifer, a recent graduate of Vermont's Windham Col¬ lege, was ready to do something a bit
Artist’s rendition, validated by one of the eyewitnesses, dramatically depicts the Camp Delaware daylight encounter, (©1976 By Allan Hendry; courtesy of the Interna¬ tional UFO Reporter.)
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sky before their brains could register that the mysterious object had left the scene. From separately written (but regrettably unsigned} accounts, the scene can be reconstructed as follows:
U pon reaching the top of the mou n¬ tain, the group stopped to rest: some sat, others stood* Suddenly a high- pitched whining sound was heard, coming from above and slightly to one side of where they rested. Most of the witnesses likened the noise to the high frequency feedback sound from a sound amplification system*
Startled, they all looked up and saw an apparently metallic object, esti¬ mated to be about 20 feet in diameter, hovering about 50 to 60 feet above the ground* It had a Elat, shiny, reflective bottom, and its half-dome shape was topped by a smaller dome that was ap¬ parently internally lit by a reddish light. The entire object was surround¬ ed bv a mist: most witnesses called it a
“purplish” color; dissenters described it as “violet*” The reddish illumined dome appeared to be revolving, al¬ though one witness, believed to be Leifer, citing his observation of chang¬ ing reflections on the flat, mirror-like bottom, insisted that the entire device was rotating*
The total time of the observation was about 15 to 25 seconds, during which time the object was silent/ When the sound was heard again, the object departed rapidly; 11 So did we!” one boy wrote later. The object ascended so rapidly that one witness said he was left looking at the space where it had been.
Counselor Ira Leifer found himself hard pressed to keep up with his flee¬ ing campers and all fourteen, running at top speed, returned to camp where they gasped out their story to their startled friends and other counselors.
It is not certain just who notified the
newspaper, but Mark Fisher from the nearby Winsted Evening Citizen was on the scene within an hour* Fisher's front page account the next day in¬ cluded a rough sketch by camper Billy We is man n, one of the eyewitnesses*
Interest in the story flared out of all proportion to what had actually been seen. Perhaps it was the fact of mul¬ tiple witnesses, including a college trained adult whose integrity was vouched for in no uncertain terms by his employers. Or perhaps it was the closeness of the encounter and the fact of its taking place in broad daylight* Whatever the reason, Camp Delaware suddenly found itself under seige by the news media. Local TV crews ap¬ peared, demanding interviews, The phones rang constantly as local UFO investigators as well as representatives from out-of-state groups called, each seeking more information* One call reportedly even came from Australia!
The pressure grewr so intense, co¬ owner Mrs. Joseph Wainstock told me some weeks afterwards, that it threat¬ ened to totally disrupt camp life. “We had 400 children here, ages 4 to 1 6; we have a large staff of counselors and other supervisory personnel, and we could simply not permit this event to throw' the whole place into confusion* We had a responsibility to these chil¬ dren, a responsibility to the parents w'ho sent them here. In fact, I was so busy myself that I did not even have time to discuss the matter with the children who said they sawr it. But we did let them, separately, individually, without comparing notes, write brief statements about what they saw. These were given to one UFO investigator."
That investigator was Paula Holmes, president of the Northwest Connecti¬ cut Chapter of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (AFRO). Mrs. Holmes had learned of the sighting as soon as it became public and went to the camp shortly thereafter. She was able to talk briefly with counselor Leifer, (“I sorta sneaked into the camp,” she told me some weeks later when we discussed the case, “and was able to see Ira for a little while. He said he would try to get me copies of wfhat the kids had written,”) But she did not then learn any more details of (Continued on page 51)
As the "KEEP OUT" sign makes clear, casual visitors, including UFO investiga¬ tors, are not welcome at Camp Delaware!
Map shows location of camp counselor and 13 campers who witnessed a UFO In broad daylight on July 28, 1976 near Win* sted, Connecticut.
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30
YEARS
Here we summarize some of the best UFO eases on record, as we celebrate the Thirtieth Anniver¬ sary of modern UFOIogy.
By Allen Benz
■ The modern period of ufology began on June 24, 1947 when Kenneth Arnold, a Boise, Idaho, businessman flying in his private airplane spotted a formation of nine disc-like objects fly¬ ing along at high speed between him and distant ML Rainier. He said that they moved ‘like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water,” A report¬ er wrho later interviewed Arnold after he had landed coined the phrase “fly¬ ing saucers11 to add a feature story twist to the sighting*
This did not constitute the first UFO sighting or even the first sighting in 1947, but it is one of the most remembered sightings* Earlier sightings have been detailed in the works of Charles Fort, in Mysteries; of the Skies by G*I.R. Lore and H* De- neault, and The UFO Controversy In America by Dr, David M, Jacobs, The 1947 sightings have been chronicled by Ted Bloecher in The Report on the UFO Wave of 1947,
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Despite denials, “explanations" and journalistic comments about just another silly season phenomena* UFO reports kept coming in* Military7 con¬ cern grew and on January 22, 1948 the newly established United States Air Force became responsible for invest i- gating the UFO phenomena. During the tatter portion of 1948 the USAF's Air Technical Intelligence Center wrote, according to the late E,J, Rap- pelt, former head of Project Blue- book, an Estimate of the situation concerning UFOs, The document stated ATIC's belief that UFOs are interplanetary vehicles! Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg did not accept this, however, and the report died a quick death* No copies of this report are known to exist today* In 1952 after an absence of nearly two years UFOs returned en masse, During 1952 the Air Force received 1501 reports, more than any other year. As Jacobs noted in The UFO Controversy in America: “The year 1952 marked the high point of the Air Force's UFO investigation and the beginning of styles of thought that dominated the Air Force's attitude toward UFOs until 1969." UFOs did not confine their activities to the U.S. Instead, a true worldwide wave oc¬ curred, Three of the most striking cases took place in Washington, D.C, and at Oloron and Gaillae in France, On July 19 and 20 a group of UFOs appeared on radar over the restricted air space near the Capitol and the White House, The Air Force scram¬ bled jets to intercept the UFOs, Later they refused to admit this and staged
that the radar operators had picked up a temperature inversion on radar. The French sightings involved, in each instance, a white, cylindrical object emitting a white, fibrous substance known as “Angel's Hair" and accom¬ panied by 16 to 30 smaller disc-shaped craft: The wave subsided in December and the Air Force breathed a sigh of relief. The sightings had deeply affect¬ ed the American military establish¬ ment, The reports had tied up Air Force intelligence personnel to an alarming degree*
The 1952 wave and its effect on the military caused considerable conster¬ nation in the intelligence and security community* So much so that the Cen¬ tral Intelligence Agency convened a panel of five distinguished scientists to study the Air Force data. Chaired by Dr. H.P. Robertson of the California Institute of Technology, the panel met January 14 - 17, 1953, They came up with four recommendations: 1) There is no evidence of UFO hostility; 2) There is no evidence of artifacts of a hostile foreign power; 3) The public should be educated as to the nature of various natural phenomena; and, 4) There should he a systematic debunking of flying saucers to reduce public interest .
Within a few months of this fourth recommendation, the Air Force incor¬ porated it into an official regulation known as AFR 200-2. This, along with another regulation (JANAP 146) adopted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, effectively suppressed the release of UFO data. Only positively identified sightings could be reported and then only from the Pentagon, Violation of
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either of these regulations could lead to tine(s) and imprisonment under the espionage laws of the United States or the Canadian Official Secrets Act,
In 1954 the UFOs seemed to have concentrated their activities in Europe and South America, but practically every country reported numerous sight¬ ings, indicating a 'worldwide flap, Jacques Vallee writing in The Humanoids listed 200 landings, 156 of which took place in France, Coral Lorenzen, in both Flying Saucers; The Startling Evidence of the Invasion From Outer Space and Flying Saucer Occupants, noted numerous reports from Brazil and Venezuela,
The French wave, though, re¬ mained the largest, with dozens of sightings being reported every day from September through November, This made a very deep psychological impact on the French people, Vallee notes that the media became so emo*
competently discussed this flap in the March 1977 issue of Official UFO, so it will only briefly be covered here. Mention should be made of two of the most significant sightings of the flap, which took place in the southwest por¬ tion of the U,S, On November 2 there occurred a series of sightings near Level! and, Texas, Two days later James Stokes, a civilian Air Force em¬ ployee and 24 year Navy veteran* saw a UFO near White Sands Missile Range in New- Mexico,
After the 1957 flap, UFO activity declined considerably with significant sightings few and far between. Two of these, the Fr, Gill/Boianai, New- Gui¬ nea, and Socorro, New Mexico, cases are detailed below. Public interest in UFOs also declined. The period from 1958 to 1964 became characterized by intense efforts to get a Congressional investigation of the UFO subject. The National Investigations Committee on
Time exposure of glowing, discshaped UFO made by James Luccl on August 8, 1965, In Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, A
Photo of UFOs taken at Salem, Massachu¬ setts, Coast Guard station by Shell Alpert on July 16, 1952. <
tional about the situation that ridicule ruled the day and no scientist would risk his reputation by openly studying the subject.
The next big flap began in Asia in August of 1957 and peaked around November 6th. Kevin Randle has
Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), headed by retired Marine Corps Major Donald E. Keyhoe, spearheaded the efforts to get the hearings. Presenting such hearings became a major objec¬ tive for the Air Force from 1958 to 1964,
Jacobs refers to the period 1 965-1 967 as the turning point in the UFO con¬ troversy, Coral Lorenzen refers to the time just before this as the era **belbre the dam broke" and to 1965 as “The Big Year," Events took place on many fronts. Sightings increased from about 30 per month to over 260 per month according to USAF figures. The press began to be critical of the Air Force’s flinvestigations/# The scientific community entered the debate. Public interest grew enormously. The May, 1966 Gallup Poll indicated that 96 percent of all Americans had heard of UFOs. As in 1952 and 1954, the 1965 flap covered the globe. APRO received reports from all states in the U.S, and from virtually every non-com¬ munist country.
On March 20, 1966 college students at Hillsdale College in Michigan sight¬ ed a glowing, football-shaped object over a swampy area near the women’s dormitory, Police in Dexter, Michigan, saw a similar object the following night. The press pressured the Air
On August 2, 1965, the Wichita Weather Bureau tracked UFOs on radar. Sightings were conlirmed by ground observers. T
Force to solve the mystery. Dr, J, Allen Hynek, the Air Force’s scientific consultant, went to investigate the situation. At a news conference, Hynek suggested '‘swamp gas as a possibility for the origin.../’ The press took this and proclaimed swamp gas to the world. As Hynek recalled later “swamp gas became a household wrord and a standard humorous synonym for UFOs.”
Michiganders did not like this and Representatives Vivian Weston and Gerald R. Ford called for Congres¬ sional hearings. This, in turn, even¬ tually led to the awarding of a contract to the University of Colorado to study the UFO problem.
This action became one of very great importance. Numerous parties including Keyhoe, Hynek, UFO groups, Congress and others had urged this for years. Since this inves¬ tigation had an academic rather than a military base it became even more important for those concerned. The study group headed by physicist Edward U, Condon became wracked with internal dissension almost from the very beginning. The committee’s final report, Scientific Study of Un¬ identified Flying Objects, a master¬ piece of excess verbiage, the body of which does not agree with conclu¬ sions, raised more questions than it answered. Condon wrote that “further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced there¬ by,” The Condon Committee aided
the Air Force in their efforts to rid themselves oFthe UFO problem; and on December 17, 1969 Air Force Secre¬ tary Robert C. Seamans, Jr. announced the end of the USAF’s study of UFOs, Reaction to the report came almost along party lines. Orthodox scientists and major newspapers supported Condon. The New York Times called it a “careful and extensive investiga¬ tion.” Hynek called it “an uninspired pot-boiler," Keyhoe denounced it as a
“waste of money.” The Lorenzens called it “shallow,”
While Condon and the media kept saying “there ain’t no such things,” the things kept appearing. In fact in 1967 the UFOs almost ipundated South America, appearing not in ones and twos but in entire fleets!
The Condon report and the Air Force’s exodus affected public interest in UFOs. By 1971 NICAP had lost 66 percent of its membership, AFRO lost
Charles Hickson points to area where a UFO landed and abducted him and a companion in Pascagoula, Mississippi, in October 1973.
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Photo taken of UFO over Lake Tloratl, Pennsylvania, on December 18, 1966.
50 percent. These losses necessitated a redirection of effort toward encour¬ agement of persona! projects by indi¬ vidual scientists. Calm and a sense of regrouping characterized 197) and 1972.
In 1973 the UFOs again returned en masse. Thousands of Americans saw UFOs in practically every state in the Union, The flap ranked in intensity with those of the 1950s. It began in January, built up through March, then dwindled through July. In August things began picking up again, continued into September and peaked in mid-October. Reports kept coining in until June, 1974 .when the wave subsided. Witnesses reported numerous cases of car chasing, elec¬ tro-magnetic effects, physical or psy¬ chological effects on people, landings and occupants— especially occupants, Jacobs gives a good overall account of the 1973 flap. David Webb has ade¬ quately covered the occupant scene in 1973: Year of the Humanoids. Jacobs indicates that the 1973 flap should be considered as unique because: “Free from the debates of previous years, reseachers for the First time focused on identification and confronted head-on the mystery of unidentified flying
On August 3, 1965, Rex Heflin took a senes of UFO photographs near Santa Ana, Call' fomia, (1) Heflin’s first photo of UFO laken through windshield of his truck. (2) Second photo taken through Heflin's right door window. (3) Third photo through right door window as object began to move north. (4) Last photo taken by Heflin outside his truck as UFO suddenly shot straight up, leaving this strange vapor in its wake.
objects.
Cases. When all is said and done this is whaf the whole mystery boils down to — cases. Most of the signifi¬ cant cases fall into one or more of the following categories: abductions, ef¬ fects on humans, radar-visual, occu¬ pants and physical evidence. Let’s review some of the significant cases in each category,
ABDUCTIONS Antonio Villas-Boas
On the night of October 15, 1957 around I a.m, Antonio Villas-Boas, a Brazilian farmer living near the town of Sao Francisco de Salles, was still out working in his fields when he saw a big red object land some 35 to 45 feet away from his tractor, A small creature got out of the UFO and started to pursue him, Villas-Boas tried to escape but was seized by three
“men” and forcibly taken aboard the craft. He was taken to a room with only one table and some chairs. There he was stripped naked, washed down with a clear liquid and then va¬ cuumed with a rubber hose. He was escorted to another room furnished with only a couch. The room Filled quickly with gray smoke, causing Villas-Boas to vomit profusely. Later a completely naked small, blonde woman with blood red armpit hair entered the room, proceeded to seduce him and then left. Subsequently a male crew member escorted Villas- Boas through the ship and then out. Villas-Boas returned to his tractor around 5:30 a.m, some 4Vi hours later. Betty and Barney Hill
During the return portion of a trip to Canada Mr. and Mrs, Hill saw “an unusually bright star." They noted the time as approximately 11 p,m, on the night of September 19, 1961. Even¬ tually they saw a craft without wings with a series of blinking, multi¬ colored lights. The object kept pace with the Hills* car and then swung across the road and hovered at treetop level. Barney stopped the car and got out to take a look. Using a pair of binoculars, he saw a double row of
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Mr. Dean Marge n encou ntered this object as he stepped into a clearing in a woods near Red Bud , Illinois, on April 23, 1950. Itwas hovering low over the trees and immediately began to move away.
The famous Lonnie Zamora landing case In New Mexico. Here the entire landing site Is seen In this photo. Circles Indicate the locations of the depressions caused by the UFO. (USAF Photo)
On July 9, 19$ 2 John Mittle, a Kutxtoum, Pennsylvania , fanner and amateur pho¬ tographer, took these pictures of a UFO which reportedly appeared over his farm .
The left photo was taken as the object headed toward Mittle and the right photo as it soared away .
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windows and six beings behind them. Fear- filled, he ran back to the car and sped away. Shortly thereafter they heard a beeping 3ound and a strange drowsiness came over them, Following this and unbeknown to them at the time, the beings from the strange craft took them aboard, gave both physical examinations and then released them. Subsequently they again heard the beeping sound and found themselves on ILS. Highway 3 headed toward their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Later they began to real* izc that they could not account for two hours during their return home, Bar¬ ney began to have physical problems — stomach pains, ulcers, high blood pressure. Eventually, both he and Betty went to see Dr. Benjamin Simon in Boston, By means of regressive hyp¬ notherapy the Hills later learned they had been taken aboard the UFO and examined,
Hickson and Parker
On October 11, 1973 Charles Hick¬ son, 42, and Calvin Parker, 19, sat fishing at the mouth of the Pascagoula River near Pascagoula, Mississippi, when they beard a buzzing sound and then saw an egg-shaped object, ten feet wide and eight feet tall, hovering forty feet from the river hank. Three occupants of the craft floated out of the craft and toward the two fisher¬ men, Two of the beings grabbed Hick¬ son and one took Parker, Parker then fainted. They took Hickson aboard and examined him for approximately twenty minutes. After they released him, Hickson saw Parker on the ground praying and crying, Hickson then saw' the object disappear. The pair ran from the area, into town, and
eventually ended up at the sheriffs office. There they told their story and were secretly “tested*' by the sheriff by being left alone in a room with a hid¬ den tape recorder and monitoring equipment, APRO sent Dr, James A. Harder from the University of Cali¬ fornia to Mississippi to investigate, Hynek learned of the case and also went to Pascagoula, Eventually both Hickson and Parker took lie-detector tests and both passed.
The wire services and networks picked up the story and it became front page news. Pascagoula became one of the most publicized cases on record,
Travis Walton
At approximately 6:15 p,m. on November 5, 1975 while driving along a rugged logging road in the Apache- Sitgreaves National Forest of Arizona, Michael Rogers and his crew saw a glowing object off to their right, about 20 feet above the ground. One crew member, Travis Walton, yelled to Rogers to stop. Before the truck had stopped Walton jumped out and ran toward the object, which he stood under for a few seconds. Then, a greenish-blue beam of light struck him and a brilliant flash engulfed his body. He then rose about a foot in the air and then slammed back to earth. Terrified, Rogers and crew fled from the scene. About a quarter of a mile down the road, they stopped, recon¬ sidered the situation and went back to help Walton, When they returned, they found no UFO and no Walton. They then went to the sheriff s office to tell what had happened. Law en¬ forcement and search/ rescue person¬ nel searched the area but could not
find any trace of Walton, Subsequent¬ ly, Rogers asked that he and his crew be given lie-detector tests. Five of the six passed the test; the examiner de¬ clared the other one to be "inconclu¬ sive." Five days passed. Then, on November 11 just after midnight, Travis Walton called his sister and told her he was in a telephone booth just outside of Heber, Arizona, He sounded weak and confused. Walton said that he lost consciousness when the light hit him. When he regained consciousness lie found himself lying on a table. Near him he saw three beings approximately five feet tall, with large eyes, small noses, mouths and ears and no hair. Later, one of the occupants guided him through the craft and met three other “humans," Then, once again, the ufonauts ren¬ dered Walton unconscious. When he awoke this time, Walton realized that he had been released on a road near Heber.
EFFECTS ON HUMANS Ft . Itaipu, Brazil
Soldiers stationed at Ft. Itaipu, Brazil, will not soon forget the night of November 3, 1957, For on that night a UFO horribly burned two of their number, it began when two sentries saw a "star." Within seconds the "star" had come over the fort and hovered some 180 feet up. Then the UFO hit them with an intolerable wave of heat. Both thought that they had been set afire. Hearing the des¬ perate screams, the other members of the garrison awakened and raced to the aid of the sentries. One had lapsed into unconsciousness; the other one had hidden in a corner, mumbling incoherently. Some of the soldiers saw the organge UFO climbing above the fort. The guards had been badly burned, receiving first and second degree burns over a large portion of their bodies. The army transferred them to the military hospital in Rio de Janeiro and placed them under tight security. The day after the incident military intelligence officers told every¬ body at the fort to shut up,
The late Olavo T, Fontes, M.D,, then A PRO's representative in Brazil, learned of the incident and investi¬ gated, He could not get in to see the wounded soldiers themselves; however, he did locate some soldiers who had been at Ft, Itaipu at the time and they did confirm the story to Fontes. In a technical paper which he sent to (Continued on page 52) 27
A clip blown up from an 8mm movie of a bell-shaped craft that mode a low pass over a pick-up truck at Lost Creek, West Virginia, on July 23, 1866.
Why do some people see UFOs, or experience contact with UFO occu¬ pants? The answer to that question could provide a real clue to what’s behind the UFO mystery!
■ Here and there among the teeming millions of earth’s inhabitants are per¬ sons who seem to be the recipients of special attention by the intelligence behind UFOs. These persons are not our elite leaders. They are only com¬ mon folk. Today's pleasure oriented world pays little attention, but these unbelievable experiences have far reaching implications for all humanity.
The eight scattered humans l want you to know about have had a variety of experiences. Let me explain that in these cases and in all others of this na- ture the search for the truth essentially begins with just the witness and the in¬ vestigator, We know the true scientific approach is not possible in field cases,
I cannot prove or disprove what the witnesses claim they experienced with their various senses. So in a sense it is an exercise in futility because no phy¬ sical proof acceptable to orthodox science ever seems to remain. But in spite of this, I believe we should care¬ fully listen to and document these claims by sincere, reasonable people. We should not exclude anything be¬ cause it is totally unconventional or bizarre. If one blindly examined only the elephant’s tail, he would believe it was a snake! Therefore, let us at least listen and see if we can detect any mutually common threads running through the fabric of this grouping of strange claims,
Alan Seaton is a tall, 40 year old outdoors type man who lives in Mon¬
tana. He is a devout Catholic and prays one and one-half hours per day. He is also psychic, During 1975 and ‘76, Montana had been the scene of many UFO sightings. One sunny morning in November, 1975, Alan was climbing a ladder as he worked on his home. He was amazed to see a fantas¬ tic array of five large, domed discs fastened together with large, flexible hoses move overhead at low altitude. By the time he jumped off the ladder and ran around the house they were out of sight. Prior to this sighting, he had two dreams in which he stepped off his carport in his night clothes on the way to his car to go to work, A tremendous bright light appeared overhead and he found himself drawn up to it. He remembers no more of the dream. In his life, he remembers one special precognition dream. Both he and his mother simultaneously dreamed that a Navy plane would crash in his back yard, killing two men. Such a plane did become lost in a snowstorm and crashed in the back yard of his Michigan home, killing the pilots, I have mentioned the strange case of Alan Seaton because, although he is not a full fledged chosen one, 1 suspect that he could become one in the future.
Gene Eagleton, one of Indiana's few remaining Indians, has also seen UFOs, However, the sum total of three separate UFO encounters plus a myriad of other related events is
enough to send an objective invests gator into shock. In 1965, a ball- shaped UFO with a ring around it paced his auto, then landed in front of it on a highway south of Indianapolis. All traffic was stopped, including a preacher’s car which came to a stop beside the Eagleton auto. After the soundless craft departed straight up at phenomenal speed, the witnesses drove on to a place called The Pan¬ cake House, Here Eagleton said: “The preacher, he was a God lovin’ man. He got in the back seat of his car and prayed." Frank Edwards, a well known new's man, was summoned and he took photos of four places on the highway where the tar had melted. On a May evening in 1971, the Indiana State Police contacted me. An identical craft was back at Eagle- ton's small farm. The large silver craft with white lights on the top and bottom and multicotored lights around the ring had approached the home, then hov¬ ered over the pig pen, A high inten¬ sity sound was heard, electric power failed, and an odor Eagleton said was like Life Buoy soap .and linseed oil filled the air. Pandemonium erupted as the pigs, cats, dogs and chickens reacted in a terror stricken manner. Followed by his wife and son, Eagle- ton rushed into the back yard to see what was happening.
The witnesses’ ears hurt, their heads were numb, their bodies finely and (Continued on page 54)
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HUSH HUSH
UFoocr
■ Conventional authorities have tried desperately for years to explain, or explain away, UFO phenomena in terms of humanly understood ration¬ ale. But even when the idenkfteds are nailed down, an uncomfortable percentage of hard core umdentifieds remains. UFOlogists have divided these renegades into several possible categories but researchers maintain two broad divisions: The Paraphy steal and Psychic Theory > suggests that some could be manifestations of the human psyche’s deeper levels. The Ext ra terrestrial Theory contends that they are actual, solfd objects from other planets, piloted by human-tike beings. (There is also the concept of other dimensions, which closely parallels the psychic view.) Of course this is only a brief, limited, undetailed summary of accepted explanations, but it shall suffice for our purposes here. The essential conclusion of both extraterrestrial and paranormal enthusiasts is that UFOs apparently are controlled by intelligent entities (usually termed non-humans}* One of the greatest, growing proofs of UFO reality is the increasingly sighted humanoid occupants and their occas¬ ional communication or interaction with humans. In turn, one of the most puzzling aspects of this UFOnautA Earth people interchange is sexual. The enigma essentially centers around seemingly alien interest in our biological makeup. Well-read UFO enthusiasts arc aware of traditional contact accounts where physical examinations or some type of sexual experiment were performed by UFO humanoids upon both men and women.
The prominent Betty and Barney Hill case and the Antonio Boas account are prime examples; however, they will not be discussed in this ar¬ ticle since they have had ample coverage before in the annals of UFOlogy, We shall proceed later to other recent documented evidence,
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By Bill Quinalty
There is a side of UFO occupant encounters that is rarely discussed in the open, but which could have significant implications for the future of the human race.
Whether saucer occupants are extraterrestrial humanoids, similar to us in their evolution or ultra terrestrial non-humans from other dimensions (or perhaps both), is not yet a clear issue. However, one point that is growing clearly obvious from the looks of many documented, direct encounter reports, is that some UFO entities are almost obsessed with our sexual functions. Various private research groups assume the entities are mating select humans and creat¬ ing a hybrid race that is more adapt¬ able to Earth conditions. Others suggest that perhaps these cultures contain individuals with varied dispo¬ sitions, just as our own cultures do. In other words, perhaps a few among their number are merely intensely passionate creatures! On the other hand, the Para physical Theory supp¬ orters (at least most of them) feel there is some sinister purpose behind all the biological/ sexual probing. The distur¬ bing element that seems to lend credence to the latter alarming suggestion is the cold, clinical approach most of the UFO probes seem to take on.
It’s not a new story, of course!
We have indications in earliest sac¬ red traditions that otherworldly beings had sexual liaisons and matings with the Earth race. The Bib¬ lical Genesis gives one popular account:
“And it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that were fair; and
they took them wives of all which they chose/* (Chapter 6, Verse 1 and 2.) Note that this happened prior to the universal diluge.
Hindu lore also describes matings between celestial women and Earth men, Chinese legend mentions intimate contact between immortals and mortals.
Medieval tradition tells of matings between star maidens and Earth men of valor. Strikingly similar stories can be recognized in Amerindian mythic tradition. Naturally we could continue digging up many similar records proving that there must be something to it all. But the point is both the inner (subtle) dimensions of nature and the mythic spheres of the gods have always been depicted as populated by a few highly sexed beings!
Whether one explores the shadowy occult othenvorld or 1 researches the evasive UFO, he or she will inevitably discover certain criss-crossing paths— phenomena occupying common ground. One of these is our occasioned intim¬ ate contact with non-humans. Some people affirm the UFO to be merely one element in a vast multi-faceted ev¬ olutionary cosmology. Certainly the borderland between reality as we knowr it and another probable dimen¬ sion isn't always so easy to define. But the evidence is building up. There are indeed strong paraphy sical elements indicated in numerous unsolved UFO reports . These peculiarities evade us for the most part. Sometimes they seem to take on the appearance of so¬ phisticated illusions. But if some type of subatomic anti-world exists alongside our own, this would be un¬ derstandable. Perhaps its like comparing a photo print to a negative with each having substantiality but one being the reverse of the other. Nevertheless, there must be bridges between our world and that other world— common points of reference. Maybe in time a few' of these will be (Continued on page 56}
This pine sapling was located just outside the west edge of the ring. The bottom was scraped and further up the trunk can be noted pitted areas In the bark. Under a microscope can be seen smaii rocks and sand embedded in the wood. This occurs only on the side facing the ring, conceiv- ably caused by a Jet propelled or rapidly spinning object near the ground.
Another pine sapling, found on the ground facing south within the ring. The trunk had been broken and scraped at the base. The pine needles and branches were com¬ pletely dehydrated. Carbon deposits were found on the pine needles. After close study, it was determined that the sapling was hit several times by something rotat¬ ing rapidly in a counter clockwise motion.
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UFO rings are circular marks left in fields and swamps by hovering or landed UFOs. They complete a significant portion of the physical trace evidence of close encounters of the second kind.
CLOSE
ENCOUNTERS
UFO LANDING MNG FOUND IN
^■LOUISIANA
By Tommy Roy Blann
■Louisiana is a state of both beauty and mystery, where Colonial homes and historic landmarks can be seen jutting lip here and there, where the lush undergrowth flourishes to form the dense, moss-covered woods of the swamps and bayous, a place where the folklore of the past is still a part of the present and where many mysteries re¬ main hidden deep in the minds of those that dwell in these swamps and marshes*
Many of the people who live near the swamps and bayous keep many things to themselves and only pass it on to their children and close friends. These people say very little to the pub¬ lic about their beliefs, and experiences with the Msupernaturar and other subjects, including the widely recog¬ nized subject of UFOs* But occasion¬ ally, something happens near a town or city that alerts the public's atten¬ tion to its presence; and then, with much probing and traveling on foot through treacherous areas of some of these swamps and bayous, the experi¬ ences of these people are brought to light.
And this is exactly what happened on June 17, 1976, near the small town of Minden, Louisiana. Around 10:30 a.m., Gene Smith, an employee of the Louisiana State Highway Department, was cutting the grass along Interstate 1-20, about two miles east of Minden, when he came across an area of vege¬ tation that had been scorched and swirled in a counterclockwise direc¬ tion, a perfect circular pattern.
Bringing his tractor- mower to a halt, he climbed off to get a better look at this unusual circular area. Walking over to the small pine sap¬ lings, he noticed that they had been scraped by something, as well as hav¬ ing been scorched and dehydrated. He then called his foreman, Stacey Skanes, and a fellow worker, John C. Lee, to come and look at this peculiar mark.
Upon closer examination of the area, Gene Smith remarked: “The cir¬ cle measured approximately Fifteen feet from one side to the other and had about a seven foot inner circle with the grass standing straight up* The outer edge, about a four foot section— all the grass in it was laid down and run¬ ning counterclockwise, including the
The UFO ring found off Interstate 1-20 in Louisiana closely resembles the over 300 UFO ring cases now on record.
UFO investigators arrive at scene of UFO ring near Minden, Louisiana and begin gridwork to properly locate soil samples for later fabwork.
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Tree on outskirts of ring showed fresh abrasion, possibly from Close-up of abrasion also reveals dehydration caused by a hovering disc*shaped object. microwave or infrared radiation.
Three possible landing pod marks were found on the outside perimeter of the ring This one Is from the southwest section of the ring.
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pine trees, and the pine trees on one side had scratch marks. We could stand in the circle and look at the trees
go all the way around in a counter¬ clockwise direction,
I he trees had been scorched and scratched — it looked like some kind of force had gotten in there and just spun around! We even looked for vehicle tracks or footprints, thinking some¬ body might have done this with some type of equipment, but there wasn't any tracks at all, not any! J have been out here a little over 12 years now, and I have never seen anything like this. I don't know what could have made this type of disturbance,”
John C. Lee, another employee of the Louisiana State Highway Dept, who observed the area, stated: "it was just a perfect circle ! We checked. . .and we could not see where anybody had walked, or anything. The trees were burned and the grass in there was burned. The pine needles and the sap on them was parched. I don't know what could have done this, we arc alt (Continued on page 61)
Two famous UFO ring cases: left, the Delphos, Kansas, ring which contained an unknown crystalline substance; and right, one of three rings made by spinning UFOs nearTully, Australia.
The UFO ring as It was first discovered fust off Interstate -20 near Minden, Louis¬ iana.
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landing and performing all kinds of unconventional maneuvers. There have been many contacts between UFOnauts and humans. Some of these aliens act friendly on the surface while the actions of others seem to indicate hostility on their part. But no one knows their motives, and if some¬ one in Washington does, they’re sim¬ ply keeping it to themselves.
We arc like mice in a cage to these invaders. Their crafts fly rings around our foremost military planes and they come and go when they please. Some¬ times they “invite11 earthlings into their ships for what appears to be a full-scale physical and mental examination. The planet Earth is a giant laboratory and we as humans are guinea pigs as intelligent beings from an unknown source gather around, scrutinizing all of our actions.
Sometimes these UFOs leave behind evidence of their presence. In¬ deed, they apparently want us to know they're around. In just about every landing case their vehicles leave a visi¬ ble impression in the ground. A 20 foot circle indentation is a familiar trademark of a UFO landing after a witness has reported viewing a cigar or disc shaped object taking off from the ground. Burned or dehydrated vegeta¬ tion and swirled grass patterns also are noted around some UFO landings. Sometimes traces of radioactivity have been detected around mutilated animals in areas wrhere UFOs have been reported.
Some UFOs land in a certain spot and return the following night. On November II, 1965, Anhava Filho and her grandson watched from their farm as a lighted object landed in a nearby field. They saw two small men dismount from the craft and walk around the field, picking up trees and branches. The visitors also inspected a mare which was standing by a fence.
When her husband returned home Mrs. Filho informed him of the strange happenings. So the next day he went into town and invited all his friends to come wratch these unknown strangers. Sure enough, on the night of the 13th they returned. There were three of them: one wore overalls- another, a pair of chocolate pants; the third had a squarish, flat head and wore what 36
appeared to be a surgeon's apron. These beings and their ship glowed brightly all the time. Next they seemed to continue the chores they had begun the previous evening as they stalked around, uprooting plants and pluck¬ ing leaves and twigs from bushes. The beings moped around for a while longer before entering their craft and taking off at a high speed.
A similar incident occurred in a Wisconsin cornfield in June 1972. The witness, a farmer who wishes to remain anonymous, viewed a silver, egg-shaped object slowly descend into his cornfield about 100 yards away. Just as the craft seemingly was about to strike the ground, a pair of legs “grew out" of the bottom and the object landed, A door opened on the side and “some people" about five feet tall came out and “messed" around with the corn stalks for a while before they hopped back into their ship and sped away.
During the intense UFO flap of 1897 a farmer watched helplessly as a UFO literally stole one of his cattle. Alexander Hamilton of Yates Center, Kansas iwas awakened at 10:30 on the night of April 19 by a disturbance among his cattle. Investigating the commotion Hamilton was amazed to see "an airship descending upon my cow lot about 40 yards from the house." Hamilton ran back to the house and called his son and a tenant. Armed with pitchforks they returned to the cow lot where the object hovered only 30 feet above the ground. In his sworn statement issued in the Yates Center Farmers Advocate of April 23, 1897, Hamilton described a 300 foot long cigar-shaped object with a bril¬ liantly lit undercarriage. The occupants flashed a beam at him and a second later “a turbine wheel 30 feet in diameter began to buzz and the ves¬ sel rose as lightly as a bird." When the ship reached 300 feet it hovered over a young heifer and, by means of a thick cable which previously had been tied around its neck, the object hoisted the cow in the air and took off.
Next morning, still not quite believ¬ ing what he had seen, Hamilton searched around for his cow, He was soon shocked to learn a neighboring Farmer had found the head, hide and legs of the butchered cow in his field. Hamilton, a former member of the House of Representatives, staked his honor upon his statement. He con¬ cluded his account with the following words. “I don't know1 whether they are devils or angels or what: but we saw
them and my whole family sawF the ship and I don't want any more to do with them." Hamilton wasn't the only one to see these huge airships. In the month of April alone, 20 states re¬ ported sightings of the same genre. Searchlights sweeping the ground wfere witnessed all over the country along with whirling machinery that landed for what appeared to be repairs and supplies.
Are those beings who took great in¬ terest in the United States in 1897 the same ones who are monitoring our world today? The answer will no doubt remain a mystery until direct contact is made between UFOnauts and representatives of our planet. And though there are many different de¬ scriptions of these flying saucer occu¬ pants, should we assume they all hail from one world or are beings from several sources watching over our planet? Whatever the answer, they all at least demonstrate the same pattern. For one thing, they always seem to be keenly interested in our livestock and the earth itself.
Another case which indicates these invaders are concerned with our soil is the story of a lavender plant growrer in France who was frozen to the spot while investigating the theft of some of his plants. In the latter days of June 1965, Maurice Masse noticed his plants had been “tampered with." At about dawn on July 7 he was standing near a hillock at the end of a field when he heard a strange whistling noise. Masse looked up and saw a football-shaped object about the size of alDauphine car resting on six legs in the middle of his lavender field.
Astonished, he then saw “ two boys of about eight years” emerge from the object and began swiping his plants. Masse was furious at these thieves and as he sneaked closer he realized these were not little boys but funny looking creatures with pointed chins, almond- shaped eyes which curved around the sides of their heads and slits for mouths. Instead of talking from the mouths the beings appeared to com¬ municate by grumbling noises inside their bodies. Masse then rushed upon the creatures and was about five yards away when one of them pointed a pen¬ cil-like instrument at him and he was suddenly immobilized — conscious but frozen in his tracks.
The creatures, less than four feet tall and wearing close-fitting, gray clothes, were “bubbling up"a ladder of lights into their machine. The vehicle's (Continued on page 44}
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Answer: "The end result of our four years of research is a special horoscope which is revolutionary in the field of astrology. This horoscope is called THE LIFE-LUCK HOROSCOPE* It ex¬ pands and concentrates on only the luck areas of astrology. It also uses NUMEROLOGY and even PSY¬ CHOLOGY. (It was discovered in Germany I ha! the psychology of color has a profound effect on luck). We tested this horoscope using our in-house research subject* in real life situations,"
Question: “How did the LIFE- LUCK HOROSCOPE do in this “add test?"
Answer: WE WERE ABLE TO INCREASE THE GOOD LUCK IN OVER 9596 OF OUR RESEARCH SUBJECTS.
“Now. I don't want to tell you some of the amazing things that happened to our research subjects, niyself* because I already sound like Tm bragging. Let me make a quick phone call and get two tvpical research subjects up here. I say typical because many subjects were much luckier and many were much less lucky. They are the average. But, I want to use
them because they had never won anything in their lives until they used the LIFE-LUCK HOROSCOPE."
“Cary summoned two of the research subjects who had taken part in the final tests of the LIFE-LUCK HOROSCOPE. She said I was free to print their testimony. This really im¬ pressed me, Few people know that trade regulations are hard on testimonials from people. If an organization prints a testimonial with a person's name, it had better be true. Hear this in mind as you read the following testimonials from Ken Frank and Rose Lineman."
"The two people entered the room and sat down, l first asked for the testimony of Ken Fronk of Canton. Ohio."
Question: “Ken, tell me your experience while using the LIFE-LUCK HOROSCOPE that was prepared foi you,"
Answer; “My LIFE-LUCK HOROSCOPE was prepared for me on March 1 , 1974. The horoscope was in great detail and covered all areas of my life. But wc, as research subjects, were told lo concentrate on games so we could get the quickest lest."
"I had never won anything in my life. In fact, I used lo think of myself as a born loser. Rut, and I still can't believe it, here are the results of using my LlFE- LUCK HOROSCOPE."
“The first day my horoscope told me I would he lucky was March 16 to March 20. On March 17, l played the horses because that was listed high on my lucky area chart, 1 used the color and number information once 1 got to the track. And, that night I won $506.00!"
"Now, 1 will just leave out the smaller winning nights and give you the highlights,"
,+l was told ] was going lo he very lucky May 19 to May 20. Using the same procedure: On May 19, I played bingo and won a 510.00 door prize and 560.00 in bingo. On May 20* I played bingo ai my Moose Club and won the S5DQ.0Q jackpot. On May 21 , 1 played bingo again and won S 50,00. On May 22, l won $525.00 on the horses and $45*00 playing bingo."
"In October, the 6th to the 1 1 th was a lucky period. But. I was told that October 9 was an especially hot day for me and l was to bet heavy, 1 played the horses and won the daily double and SI. 040.00."
Question: "1 then asked for the testimony of Rose Lineman of Fredoma, Pennsylvania."
Answer: “Well, my testimony will he much shorter than ken's was because the only game I am interested in is bingo, l got my LIFE-LUCK HOROSCOPE on May L 1974."
“Prior to that lime* I never won at bingo over a period of a month, I would keep monthly records. They would usually come out on the loss side with a few break-even months and a very few slight winning months. Overall, I was way in the red,"
“Now' compare this. Rv following I he advice in my LIFE-LUCK HORO¬ SCOPE, from May 1 (o December 31, J974, l had won 52*219.00 over that eight-month period, l played on the average of once a week depending on my ’ucky periods, averaging about 570.00 a light,"
LADY LUCK
C a n Fra nk s — Fa m a us Chief Astrologer for LA. A. — Director of the Life -l an k Research Project. Cary was bom and educated in Cleveland, Ohio. She received a US, in psychology and chemistry from Case- Western Reserve University and a piasters in polymer chemistry from Akron University. A fter graduating, she became interested in astro tog \ , She studied the subject for 10 years and earned the highest certification given to professional astrologers. She has studied astrology in London and around the world, The mere fact that Cary is associated with this project may be lucky in itself Many of her clients say that Just being associated with her in any urn seems to firing a person good luck.
"But, there are two things that impressed me about this horoscope more than my own experience. As □ favor* 1 had the LA. A. do a horoscope for each of two friends of mine."
“My Erst friend's horoscope told her to buy an Ohio lottery ticket on December 5. She soon found out lhavher ticket was a winner!''
“My second friend had a spicy experience. Her horoscope told her that she would have extremely good luck in her lovc-tife in July, It told her to be active socially that month. She had more affairs that month than 1 think I had in my entire life- She came out of it with a lasting one a guy that you couldn't have tailor made any better for her."
Question: "At this point, I have only one request from you people," l pleaded, “1 want my LIFE-LUCK HORO¬ SCOPE!" "Everyone laughed at this point as though 1 had just made a request that a million other people had made before me."
Amwer: “Yes, there is quite a demand for the LIFE-LUCK HORO¬ SCOPE since word has leaked out. And, we are now prepared to offer it to the public now ON A SPECIAL. BASIS. But, let me show you a sample LIFE- LUCK HOROSCOPE first so you know exactly what it Is*"
“I was shown a copy of this special horoscope, I can tell you it is something else. It is 31 pages long and contains things that you would never dream existed in a horoscope. To go into a complete description will take up too much space, so listed next are the highlights of the contents of the LIFE- LUCK HOROSCOPE."
• The LIFE-LUCK HOROSCOPE
reveals the following:
L WHERE, WHEN and HOW you will be lucky (including a I5-ycar* hand prepared, future forecast).
2. How to take advantage of your lucky opportunities.
3, How io increase your good luck.
4. How to avoid bad luck.
* The ho rosco pc c o ve rs h o w you ca n be lucky, depending on your horoscope, in the following areas:
Love - Job - Career - Investments - Stocks - Commodities - Oil Wells - Bingo - Lotteries - Cards: Poker. Black Jack, Baccarat - Inheritance - Football and Baseball Pools - Horse Racing - Dog Racing - General Gaines - Keno - Sports - Tip Boards - Contests - Raffles - Sweepstakes - Roulette - Slot Machines - Dice - Parlays - Legal Matters
* The LIFE-LUCK HOROSCOPE also defines the folio wing items:
Your Lucky: Years, Months, Days* Hours. Number*. Colors, Metals* Slones* People (Their Signs And When They Were Born). How to Create Lucky Vibrations* How To Create A Lucky Altitude.
Question: "This is really a super product, Nowr what is the special condi¬ tion under which it is offered here?"
Answer: “First, wc would like to test our horoscope on the general public. In the past, we have found we get many tetters on the success of our horoscope from people who use it, So, we know that wc will get feedback from people who order their LIFE-LUCK HORO¬ SCOPE"
“Second, wc want to do more advance research on color and luck, therefore* wc arc willing to make the similar offer we did in our famous ASTROLOGY TODAY feature."
“We don't know w hat we will charge for this product when the LIFE-LUCK HOROSCOPE finally goes to market, however, I can tell you that an astrologer could charge up to £200,00 for ibis horoscope — if he knew how. But, those who order here through this special “TEST SUBJECT" offer and submit their birth information and their favorite color will only pay a S9.95 charge to make a duplicate copy of their horoscope."
“We concluded the interview and Cary gave me the following information to pass on to those who wish to participate in this special project and receive their 31 page* special LIFE- LUCK HOROSCOPE prepared for them personally from their exact birth information,"
I) Get a blank piece of paper. 2) At the top of the paper, print the words “LIFE- LUCK HOROSCOPE" 3) Print your name and address, 4) Print your date, lime and place of birth (if you don't know the exact time* just pul 12 noon). 5) Write dow n your favorite color* 6) Mad this along with $9,95 in cash, check or money order to: L A. A,;Dcpt, LM-22 4626 CLEVELAND AVE. N.: CANTON. OHIO 44767*
Two persons from one household may order through this special “TEST SUB¬ JECT" offer. Simply include 519.90 if two are ordered BUT, THE LIMIT IS TWO (NO EXCEPTIONS* PLEASE), This product carries a full and uncon¬ ditional money -back guarantee. If anyone has any questions on this project* feel Tree lo phone The INTER* N AT ! O N A L Ast rologiea 1 A ssoc ia t i on a t (216) 494-4282.
By Lee Frey
The telephone service offered by the International UFO Registry pro¬ vides a vital link between the general public and UFO investiga¬ tors*
■ You are driving alone down a lonely dirt road in Arkansas when suddenly a huge, spinning, disc-shaped object rises from the dark forest in front of you* The object, about 50 feet off the ground by now, emits a deafening, high-pitched humming. You look up as the object passes directly over your car and notice distinct humanoid shapes looking out at you through a large rectangular panel in the craft!
It all happened so fast you don't know what to make of it* Sometime during the incident your car stalled, but now you restart the engine and wonder what to do next. You decide to drive to the nearest town and report the incident to the police*
When you finally arrive at the ne\t town you're having second thoughts about talking to the authorities* As you enter the sheriffs office the stench of cigar smoke Fills your nostrils as you meet the glances of several deputies seated around a pot-bellied stove* “Can we help yat stranger?" “Yes," you reply hesitatingly* "Ah* 1 was, ah* I was wondering if you knew- the best 36
road to Little Rock?"
How many times has such an inci¬ dent really occurred? How many times have people been afraid to approach the authorities, even their friends and families, with experiences like the one described above? Most people are re¬ luctant to even report nocturnal light sightings to police, let alone bizarre, close encounter experiences. Partly to answer this need and to make full use of available technology in eliciting increased public participation in solv¬ ing the UFO mystery, the Interna¬ tional UFO Registry (IUFOR) oper¬ ates the UFO Hotline* It's a toll-free, 24-hour telephone service over which anyone throughout the continental United States can report a UFO en¬ counter* The hotline is also used by a number of planetariums, observa¬ tories, radio and TV stations* and state and federal authorities in pass¬ ing on UFO sighting reports* The IUFOR funds the hotline as a public service.
The IUFOR is a non-profit world¬ wide organization which was formed
in 1970 in Austria at the University of Vienna to accumulate reliable information about UFOs, based on the following precepts:
“-The UFO phenomenon is not only worthy of objective study but necessitates an ongoing program of data collection and analysis in order to refine and increase the available evi¬ dence*
—The most direct method of accu¬ mulating reliable data is through the establishment of a large international network of trained observers and trustworthy contacts*
—In order to circumvent unneces¬ sary restrictions and complications suffered by previous investigations, such an organization should avoid al- lignment with any governmental or academic authority and should at all times remain an open citizens' group, —The organization should encour¬ age research into the UFO phenome¬ non and provide a forum for the free exchange of all viewpoints.
It was with the sudden halt of open governmental investigation of UFOs
THE UFO HOTLINE
in 3969, the infamous Condon Report, that the burden of trying to explain UFO sightings fell to a few private or¬ ganizations scattered throughout the world. During this controversial period a UFO discussion group was formed at the University of Vienna, out of which the IUFOR emerged. The primary reason for creating the registry was to accumulate more in¬ formation about the UFO phenome¬ non, and today the IUFOR acts pri¬ marily as an information gathering service promoting in-depth UFO re¬ search. With the establishment of world-wide UFO registry centers in more than 20 countries, the IUFOR has organized a unique UFO Alert System of which the UFO Hotline is an integral part.
When a call is received over the hot¬ line, a written record is made of the UFO’s description and location, and witnesses* names and addresses. The sighting is then classified as to its na¬ ture: nocturnal light, daylight disc, close encounter within 500 feet, physi¬ cal evidence case or occupant case. It
is then plotted on a central map and sighting description information is compared with various data from ob¬ servatories, NASA, the Smithsonian Short-Lived Phenomena Institute, to eliminate natural phenomena such as meteorites and rocket launchings. Thus a sighting is “registered" and categorized for further study.
Most nocturnal light sightings are simply kept for statistical purposes, but often daylight and close encounter type cases require an immediate re¬ sponse. In such cases volunteer UFO field investigators are telephoned to make on-the-spot investigations and sometimes it is necessary to bring in other investigators from nearby areas.
This constant accumulation of UFO reports from a large variety of sources enables registry centers to keep con¬ stantly informed of the latest UFO activity in their areas. This informa¬ tion is passed on to IUFOR members, other UFO organizations and civilian authorities in several ways. Flap Alert Notices are sent out in any area that is (Continued on page 64)
1 Alt UFO Hotline calls are classified and entered on a map to distinguish emerging patterns. Each day the sightings map is photographed and then cleared lor new plottings.
2 IUFOR Investigations Coordinator Bruce Schaf fenberger confirms some sighting information received via the UFO Hotline. On the basis of his evaluation, tJefd In¬ vestigators are assigned to follow through on specific cases.
3 UFO Hotline volunteers Wilma Frey (left) and Patricia Deel (right) take calls from North Carolina during a recent UFO flap there.
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ASTRONAUTS SAW UFOs
Despite official denials, there is evidence suggesting that nearly all the astronauts saw unidentifiable flying objects while in space.
By Don Wilson (author of Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon, Dell, 1975)
■ First, ordinary people began to report sighting strange objects in the earth’s skies, some of them com¬ petent, trained observers like airline pilots. Next came the astronauts, a number of whom admitted they saw strange things in the heavens they never saw before. Credible people seeing incredible things. Finally, from the most credible group of all— highly skilled and trained astronauts— came the most incredible UFO reports of all.
A number of highly respected astronomers, who were completely skeptical about the existence of UFOs, blazed the trail for astronauts. The late H.P. Wilkins, world-renowned astronomer and head of the Lunar Division of the British Astronomical Association, was a confirmed dis¬ believer in UFOs. However, his views took a sudden turn one day. On a flight to Atlanta he spotted a shiny disc-shaped object maneuver near his plane. Wilkins suddenly became a believer. He stated bluntly, “In shape and performance it was unlike any¬ thing made by man.'*
The famed ‘Clyde Tombaugh, dis¬ coverer of Pluto, one day watched with amazement from the famed Lowell Observatory in Arizona as a strange glowing craft flew over his desert home. His family also witnessed the sighting.
Said Tombaugh, “In all my years observing the skies, I had never seen
anything remotely like it. It was controlled. I am sure. I felt that we
Unidentifiable object photographed on June 16, 1969, from Apollo 11.
were watching a space ship/*
When the space program finally got off the launch pad, and astronauts started soaring through space, reports came flooding in that they were sighting UFOs up there. How true were these reports? Certainly the U.S, government has never publicly admit¬ ted that astronauts in outer space were ever visited by UFOs. Are the ac¬ counts, then, fabricated? Did wishful, sensation-seeking and money-monger-
ing UFO writers create these stories out of thin air, which they then fed to a gullible public?
This is exactly the case, say some writers, who deny that a single UFO has been sighted by any astronaut. OFFICIAL UFO recently published an article in which an aerospace expert took this stand. OFFICIAL UFO is to be commended for taking an objective look at the facts from the
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This photograph was taken during the Gemini 12 flight on November 11, 1966* NASA said that it was a sun reflection.
NASA photo lab labeled these photos taken during Sky lab 3 in 1973 as uniden¬ tifiable.
other side of the ledger* Unfortunate¬ ly, a few UFO journals publish anything and everything that looks like a good story. If there is any area where fact should be separated from fiction, it is in UFO investigations*
Charges and countercharges of falsifying of seemingly genuine photo¬ graphs have even been launched. Many of these photos, which are genuine, have been doctored and even distorted to the point of forgery* Bogus evidence and misinterpreted data have led to stories that spacemen of earth have, in fact, encountered spacemen from beyond this planet. But all this proves is that it's the people who buy and read such stories that have been taken for a ride.
We realize that many overanxious writers sometimes have gone over¬ board in reporting strange objects in the skies; at times even reliable reports have erred on the side of mystery. I know, because I, too, have been taken in by sloppy reporting* Many UFO writers cite the purported UFO that X-15 pilot Major Robert White supposedly saw. They invariably re¬ iterate his famous quote: There are things out there . Th ere absolutely are .
I was taken in because I naturally assumed— at least, until I checked — that he had actually seen a UFO. Tracing the quote back to its original source — a top-flight national maga¬ zine— I discovered that what White was describing did not appear to be as impressive as some writers claimed.
One object, said White, 1 ‘looked like a piece of paper,11 and he compared it to the size of his hand. Ft
UFOs photographed from Gemini 11 on September 12, 1966.
(Continued on page 46)
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Unidentifiable object photographed on November 12, 1966, from Gemini 12.
Film taken by Apollo 11 of the two UFOs rising out of a moon crater.
Photo taken of glowing object during the lunar orbital flight of Apollo 10.
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WE ARE SPECIMENS IN SOMEONE’S LABORATORY
(Continued from page 36) legs whirled, then retracted, and the craft rose to about 20 meters before it just vanished. The police investigated and viewed landing impressions on the ground* Several witnesses verified Massed testimony and the withered spot where the craft landed was still there two years later.
Frank Edwards* in his Fine book, Flying Saucers Here and Now* presented a vivid picture of how our government would correlate a system¬ atic operation procedure on observing another planet* The plan resulted from a joint Army-Navy briefing con¬ ducted in Washington* D,C* in 1950* Edwards described the seven phases of contact they would initiate when sur¬ veying another planet* Condensed, the steps are as follows:
1* Approach* consisting of a cau¬ tious and careful surveillance of planet from a safe distance. Study planet for intelligent life*
2* Impart close range surveillance of planet by instrumented probes re¬ sulting in photographs and samples of the atmosphere*
3* If the results of these probes war¬ ranted further investigation, then pre¬ sent craft would be phased out to be replaced by faster and more maneu¬ verable vehicles* The reason for this change would be to test the character¬ istics of the planetery vehicles to our own*
4. Manned craft approach to see if inhabitants are hostile. Check all mili¬ tary and radar locations*
5* Brief landings in remote areas for specimens of plants and animals and* if possible, intelligent beings.
6* If the results of the past phases indicate some kind of eventual con¬ tact, either direct or indirect, then this phase would consist of low' level ap¬ proaches and landings in populated areas to demonstrate our peaceful existence*
7. The last phase is a carefully planned step. We would not attempt contact unless we had reason to believe it would not be disastrous to both worlds involved* Even though the re¬ sults of the first six phases indicate it would be physically possible to land* there are some good reasons why it might never come to pass.
It appears our invaders are still de¬ liberating on that fifth phase, though 44
why they are hesitating there so long remains to be seen. In the old days of investigating the UFO phenomenon from The late MOs to the mid ’60s, most researchers classified all contact cases as hog wash. But fortunately nowadays these cases are treated and examined carefully* One of the most controversial cases of the 50s — the Villas Boas affair— was laughed away by researchers, but with more contacts between humans and aliens more UFOiogists are regarding this case w'ith a more critical eye.
Basically, Boas* story centered on the premise he was kidnapped by alien beings, put on some kind of space ship and seduced into sex by a beautiful blonde alien woman from the ship* This case was quickly placed on the dusty shelf and passed off for either a hoax, a wild hallucination or a sexual fantasy. But the late Dr. Qlavo Fontes, A PRO'S former Brazilian representa¬ tive* personally investigated the case and pronounced Boas to be probably telling the truth unless he was an ex¬ tremely clever liar* Still* as Dr. Fontes pointed out in his summary, the very heart of the story makes it almost too hard to believe.
The Boas incident occurred during the South American UFO flap of 1957, which was almost as intense in sightings as the flap three years earlier which simultaneously struck both South America and France. These were the dwarfs, the little hairy folk three and a half to four feet tall, who usually wore huge bubble-like helmets over their heads* They were alw-ays seen running around, carrying rocks and soil into their ships, and then accelerating quickly into space and out of sight. Boas* description of his abductors generally matches alien characteristics in other sightings dur¬ ing this period*
Sometimes these beings like to show what they are capable of doing. They seem to know that we realize they are much more advanced in intelligence* but how about physically? In the fol¬ lowing cases these aliens certainly demonstrated their physical prowess.
The' first exhibition occurred in Vilvorde, Belgium, about seven miles northeast of Brussels, where the wit¬ nesses, a Monsieur V. M. and his wife, were sleeping. Arising for a trip to the bathroom, and not wishing to awaken his wife, he grabbed his flash¬ light and upon reaching the kitchen heard what he thought was a shovel digging into the ground* He noticed a greenish-colored light which filtered
in through the curtains* Puzzled* he parted the curtain to glimpse a three and one half foot tall being wearing a shiny green, one-piece suit*
The entity's head was encased in a transparent globular helmet, and a tube led from the rear of the helmet to Join into a rectangular-shaped knap¬ sack-type thing on his back* The being also carried a "small red box" on his waist which emitted a red light of continuing intensity* In his hands was a device which resembled a vacuum cleaner* He slowly passed this thing over a heap of bricks, M* V* M, then flashed his light twice and the creature appeared to answer the signal by rais¬ ing his right arm and giving a "V* sign with his fingers.
The creature then transfixed V* M. by walking straight up the wall at the end of the garden. Without hesitation he placed one foot against the wall, followed suit with the other and simply scaled the wall with no change of pace or bending of the knees. Upon reaching the top of the 10 foot wall he walked over the top and down the other side, A few minutes later V* M* witnessed a round object slowly rising over the top of the wall* After hovering there for a few moments, making a churning sound with sparks emitting alt around it, the object took off and disappeared into space*
In this instance the alien acted friendly, but that is not always the case* On November 28, 1954 in Cara¬ cas, Venezuela, Gustavo Gonzeles and his helper, Jose Ponce* were driv¬ ing in a suburban warehouse to pick up some produce. When entering a street leading to the warehouse they spotted a luminous spherical object hovering about six feet off the ground and blocking their path.
After stopping the truck, Gonzeles stepped out to investigate as a three- foot tall hairy creature charged toward him* Attempting to grab the being, Gonzeles was struck and knocked 15 feet* The creature then leaped at Gon¬ zeles with clawed hands extended so Gonzeles drew his knife and stabbed the being, but the blade just glanced offlike it had hit concrete*
At about this moment another creature emerged from a hatch in the object and directed a light from a metallic tube at Gonzeles* The light blinded him and the being he was sparring with leaped in the vehicle, which rose and departed from sight in seconds* During the melee Ponce watched two similar beings emerge (Continued on page 48)
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OUR ASTRONAUTS SAW UFOs!
(Continued from page 43) was very close to his plane; he estimates no more than 30 or 40 feet away. He watched it "for a full five seconds" before it "moved away,"
What could it have been? A spaceship from another world? White admits that he had no idea, but the objects did appear to him to be "small, flaky objects." The X-15 pilot thought they might be the residue from the fuel that his plane engine was burning. Another explanation is that they were flecks of ice.
Perhaps the most oft-repeated, misreported UFO incident is that of John Glenn's famous "fireflies" being wrongly interpreted as UFOs by a string of writers.
In February 1962, John Glenn, America's first astronaut to orbit the planet Earth, reported seeing a flurry of glowing objects outside his space capsule. Many reporters have turned these "glowing objects" into space¬ ships from other worlds. They write as if these objects were legitimate un¬ identified flying objects and imply in their statements that they are indeed alien spacecraft. Clearly, an objective study, even a cursory one, of these strange glowing objects indicates that they are merely particles which are the natural flaking, off the cone of the capsule, swirling around the craft. Astronauts on subsequent flights saw the same "fireflies," as the particles have sometimes been called.
However, not all unknowns are as easily identified, nor were all as badly misidentified. The Condon Report, a government- sponsored study examin¬ ing the UFO phenomenon to see if UFOs actually do exist (and which has been severely criticized by such know- ledgeable experts as Dr. J, Allen Hynek, as merely an attempt to whitewash legitimate UFO sightings out of the skies), also tackled the astronaut-UFO problem. And believe it or not, even this skeptical, some¬ times sloppily done Condon Report claimed that for at least three Gemini sightings they could find no reason¬ able explanation. So they labeled the sightings "unexplainable."
However, one overenthusiastic skep¬ tic even takes the Condon Report to task for being too lenient or too careless in its conclusions. This critic belittles even the competency of Dr. Franklin Roach, claiming that he was not familiar with the basics of orbital
flight trajectories and clearly unquali¬ fied to evaluate this difficult case.
Instead of believing the Condon Report, which most UFO writers criticize as trying to cover up the sightings, this aerospace writer claims the report was "too superficial" in its evaluation and conclusions. It missed possible legitimate explanations.
Stanton Friedman, nuclear physi¬ cist and long-time space scientist, now devoting full time to the problem of UFOs, does not agree with this assessment of Dr. Roach's work. Friedman, as a space expert, ex¬ amined Roach’s analysis in the Con¬ don Report and calls it “one of the better chapters." And he even points out that the Condon Report summary failed to give due attention to that section in its final analysis of UFO sightings.
The critics of astronaut sightings do bring up many interesting aspects of the Gemini sightings that could be considered as possible explanations of the “uncxplainables,” Let us examine some aspects and try to analyze them objectively, to see if they tear apart the astronaut reports of UFOs.
One of the first of many “bogey" reports was from Gemini 4 (June 3, 1965), a sighting made by astronauts James McDevitt and Ed White, who described seeing a cylindrical object near their spacecraft. A check with the computer essentially explained and discounted all known objects in the vicinity where the cylinder might have been. All possible knowns were elimi¬ nated as potential answers to this "unknown,"
One critic argues that it really was Gemini’s own booster that the astro¬ nauts were seeing. Only they did not recognize it. But shouldn’t McDevitt have been able to recognize his own space booster, since the sighted object was so close to him? Not so, the critics insist, since McDevitt's eyes were watering at the time, and he had already misidentified the booster just a few hours earlier.
Apparently the astronaut did not learn from his previous experience. Or it might be pointed out that it is strange that NASA officials did not think of this obvious possibility. In fact, interestingly, McDevitt appar¬ ently would himself disagree with this oversimplified assessment. For in a recently released statement, an inter¬ view with McDevitt on Columbia records, this Gemini 4 astronaut who had given a detailed account of the sighting, claims he was "never able to
identify it, and don't think anyone ever will." (Columbia Records: UFOs: The Credibility Factor),
IntriguingJy, McDevitt did sight another UFO once more in the flight (38th orbit) — an object which he described as a "bright star, moving fast.” It was a puzzler, for it was higher than his own space capsule and supposedly moving in polar orbit. Interestingly, the caustic critic of McDevitt's earlier sighting passes over this reported sighting without com¬ ment.
This self-appointed critic of astro¬ naut sightings next takes to task Soviet reports of UFO sightings made by their own astronauts. He speaks of one account, that allegedly came from Moscow, that tells of such a sighting of UFOs following Soviet spacecraft, but he discounts the entire business because "such secrecy surrounds the entire Soviet space effort, that stories cannot be checked,”
Ah, but that is not quite true. They can be checked— they have been cheeked. At least in some instances.
For this careless writer forgets that these accounts, in the first place, leaked out precisely because somfc of the space missions were monitored by tracking stations outside the Soviet Union,
One such remarkable Soviet UFO sighting took place on Feb. 24, 1961. Tracking stations at Meudon, Urin, Uppsala and Boehum all were follow¬ ing the Soviet radio communications from Soviet cosmonauts. Things seem¬ ed to be going A-okay. The cosmo¬ nauts had reported all was well, when suddenly one of them began shouting: "Look out the peephole. Look out the peephole! I have it, . .
A second voice interjected: "Here! Here is something! There is some¬ thing! It’s difficult, ..."
Then followed a slight pause of several seconds, and next the voice continued, "If we do not get out, the world will never hear about it. It is difficult _ "
At that point, Soviet transmission from ground control broke in to announce it was eight p.m, Moscow time. No further word from the Lunik spacecraft was ever forthcoming. What happened we will probably never know, because of the Soviet government’s unwillingness (at least at this stage) to discuss space disasters, if indeed there was one here. Further¬ more, if there was no disaster, given the Soviet government’s penchant for secrecy, that also has never been
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verified. But though unverified, there is no question that a strange event took place, for several tracking sta¬ tions outside the Soviet Union picked up the communications, as was widely reported in the media at the time.
Similarly, an American UFO sight¬ ing made by one of our astronauts broke into the news, because inde¬ pendent ground witnesses saw the UFO along with the astronaut!
On the very first phase of our space program, Project Mercury, through which the U.5. attempted to get astronauts into space and bring them safely back to earth, reports of strange objects on the fringes of outer space were received.
U.S. astronaut Gordon Cooper, flying the Mercury capsule Faith 7, was among the first to see a UFO.
On May 16, 1963, while Cooper was passing over Australia, he radioed that he saw a "greenish object1* with a red tail that was approaching his capsule. Cooper described the glowing object as being of "good size,** He said, "It was higher than I was. It wasn’t even in the vicinity of the horizon. , (Condon Report)
This indicated that the unknown object was not a star or other Earth object. The important thing to re¬ member is that the incident was seen by all those present at the Muchea Tracking Station near Perth, Austral¬ ia. And this included civilian observers as well as newsmen. In fact, the entire incident was reported to the world at the time by NBC News.
So something was seen out there— not fabricated by a UFO writer.
After Cooper was brought back safely to Earth, he was questioned by anxious newsmen interested in dis¬ cussing the incident. But before he could be interrogated, the Public Affairs Officer, John J. Patterson, at the Manned Spacecraft Center, an¬ nounced to anxious reporters, "Major Cooper has informed us that he prefers not to answer your questions.”
The usually cooperative space of¬ ficials at NASA refused to discuss the incident, and this was widely reported in the press at the time.
If this doesn’t sound like cover-up and even censorship, what wrould these critics of astronaut sightings call it? The refusal to discuss what should rightly be public knowledge was a disturbing turn of events that natural¬ ly led many to conclude that NASA was trying to hide the truth about UFOs.
That interpretation has been the
one held by many respected UFO organizations like APRO and NICAP down to the present time.
Interestingly, the chief critic of astronaut sightings of UFOs, now writing in many national journals today, is himself a United States Air Force officer on assignment at the Johnson Space Center of NASA. Is that assignment specifically to counter
that ^ea^s *n t^1€ curta^n °f secrecy our government and space agency have thrownaround the entire UFO phenomenon?
It is also interesting that this critic, who claims astronauts never saw UFOs in space, spends very little time with the many alleged Apollo sight¬ ings. But this author, going through the taped conversations of the astro¬ nauts with mission control that de¬ scribed "bogeys*1 (astronauts1 term for UFO), found so many strange UFO sightings made by our Apollo astro¬ nauts that we included a chapter of these in our book Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon, along with another chapter on the Mercury and Gemini sightings. These are actual mission control -astronaut conversations and not secondary source stories.
Let us consider one such Apollo incident — that of Apollo 12. On this mission our erstwhile critic claims that the strange object that astronaut Conrad sawF was all a joke. It was simply the lunar module panels which had been jettisoned into space that they were joking about. Despite his contention, he (the critic) does grudg¬ ingly admit: “APRO says that Con¬ rad, under pressure from a secret government agency, is lying,**
Let*s look at the recording — in this case the actual mission control astro¬ naut conversation:
MISSION CONTROL :
As best we can tell, looking at things down here — on those sla panels, we assume that they weren V traveftng* * dike anything more than one or so feet per second when they separated . Your sla panels would probably be only about 300 miles away from you right now . APOLLO 12;
That could be true, but gee , whiz, when we turned around, I saw one of those sla panels leaving the area at a high rate of speed, and it looked to me like it was leaving us at a pretty good clip, like if got a lot more than a foot per second or so. MISSION CONTROL:
- Well, assume it's friendly any¬
way, okay?
That doesn’t sound like space panels, does it?
By now we have read— as has the UFO reading public— a few articles disclaiming such actual sightings. Strangely enough, except for this Apollo incident, the articles do not attack the many Apollo sightings. Perhaps it is because reporters couldn't find any way of dismissing them. So they skipped this segment— they pass over the Apollo "bogeys”— because they believe they are just that — bogus reports. However, if one reads the conversational record of mission control-astronaut communi¬ cations, one will see clearly that on just about every moon mission our Apollo astronauts reported seeing strange, unexplainable objects— UFOs.
In our book, Our Mysterious Space¬ ship Moon, we catalogued these sightings, giving the actual log of the mission control-astronaut conversa¬ tion and letting the reader decide for himself what may have been seen. We are convinced any intelligent reader will conclude that something was seen — that these “bogeys" were clearly not always space debris or mistaken satellites or parts of the space equip¬ ment.
Dr. James Harder, an engineering professor from the University of California, who is no stranger to the UFO phenomenon, and is considered to be one of the most careful researchers in the field today, also came up with the same discovery' that we made — that several Apollo flights encountered UFOs. In a report carried by the United Press Wire Service, Dr. Harder said that while reviewing tape recorded conversations between our lunar spacecraft and mission control, he came across clear evidence of UFO sightings. He said that the tape conversations clearly show that Apollo 11 spacecraft wras followed halfway to the moon, and a UFO definitely trailed Apollo 12 on three orbits around the moon. Dr. Harder then confronted NASA authorities with these facts, and they shockingly admitted privately to him (at least one official did) that astronauts did indeed see UFOs on the Apollo expeditions, but they had suppressed the UFO incidents for fear of public panic .
Harder also claims that a member of the Apollo 12 space team (whom he declined to identify) admitted to (Continued on page 65) 47
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(Continued from page 44) from the street carrying rocks and dirt in their hands. Ponce ran to the police and told his story and very soon after this Gonzeles arrived. Both men were given sedatives and Gonzeles was treated for a deep red scar on his side.
There have been other cases where UFOs have appeared at the least un* friendly. The victim, Janies Flynn of Ft. Myers, Florida, had taken a couple of dogs with him into the Ever¬ glades, After pitching camp he was awakened at 1:30 in the morning by the dogs barking. Arising out of his slumber he noticed the dogs were watching a brightly lit object of an un¬ determined shape which was settling into the swamp, Flynn hopped in his small jeep and drove to the spot where